Search Results - subject:"Poverty lines"

Romania : Poverty Assessment, Volume 2. Background Papers

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2003

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Armenia : Poverty Assessment, Volume 3. Technical Notes and Statistics

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2003

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Consumption, health, gender, and poverty

Case, Anne; Deaton, Angus - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

Standard methods of measuring poverty assume that an individual is poor if he or she lives in a family whose income or consumption lies below an appropriate poverty line. Such methods provide only limited insight into male and female poverty separately. Nevertheless, there are reasons why...

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Household welfare impacts of China's accession to the World Trade Organization

Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

The authors use China's national household surveys for rural and urban areas to measure and explain the welfare impacts of the changes in goods and factor prices attributed to WTO accession. Price changes are estimated separately using a general equilibrium model to capture both direct and...

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Poverty and economic growth in Egypt, 1995-2000

El-Laithy, Heba; Lokshin, Michael; Banerji, Arup - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

based on household-specific poverty lines that account for the differences in regional prices, as well as differences in the …

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Child growth, shocks, and food aid in rural Ethiopia

Yamano, Takashi; Alderman, Harold; Christiaensen, Luc - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

Over the past decades child stunting in Ethiopia has persisted at alarming rates. While the country experienced several droughts during this period, it also received enormous amounts of food aid, leading some to question the effectiveness of food aid in reducing child malnutrition. Using...

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Food-Based Safety Nets and Related Programs

Weigand, Christine - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

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Food-Based Safety Nets and Related Programs

Weigand, Christine - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

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On the utility consistency of poverty lines

Ravallion, Martin; Lokshin, Michael - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

Although poverty lines are widely used as deflators for inter-group welfare comparisons, their internal consistency is …'s official poverty lines reveals numerous violations of revealed preference criteria-violations that are not solely attributable … rarely given close scrutiny. A priori considerations suggest that commonly used methods cannot be relied on to yield poverty …

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Quantity Constraints, Poverty Lines and Poverty Orderings

Naga, Ramses H. Abul - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 2002

poverty lines means that, in principle, bivariate dominance results are required to order distributions in terms of poverty. …

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