Search Results - subject:"Poverty lines"

Who bears the cost of Russia's military draft?

Lokshin, Michael; Yemtsov, Ruslan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2005

The authors use data from a large nationally representative survey in Russia to analyze the distributional and welfare implications of draft avoidance as a common response to Russia's highly unpopular conscription system. They develop a simple theoretical model that describes household...

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Gainers and losers from trade reform in Morocco

Ravallion, Martin; Lokshin, Michael - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

The authors use Morocco's national survey of living standards to measure the short-term welfare impacts of prior estimates of the price changes attributed to various trade policy reforms for cereals-the country's main food staple. They find small impacts on mean consumption and inequality in the...

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Gender, time use, and models of the household

Apps, Patricia - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

The aim of this paper is to explain why time use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and the intra-household allocation of resources, comparing living standards, and estimating the behavioral effects of changes in policy variables. The first step in the exposition is to show...

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Robustness of subjective welfare analysis in a poor developing country - Madagascar 2001

Lokshin, Michael; Umapathi, Nithin; Paternostro, Stefano - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

extend the existing empirical methodology for estimating subjective poverty lines on the basis of categorical consumption … adequacy questions. Based on this methodology they calculate the household-specific, subjective poverty lines and compare the … derived from consumption adequacy questions accord quite well with the poverty measures based on objective poverty lines. The …

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Internationally Comparable Poverty Lines

Kakwani, N. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the VII Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on November 11th and 12th, 2004. Poverty line specifies the level of income or consumption that is just sufficient to maintain the...

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Evaluating different approaches to estimating vulnerability

Ligon, Ethan; Schechter, Laura - World Bank Group - 2004

A number of researchers have recently proposed a variety of different `vulnerability'measures designed to capture the welfare consequences of risk for poor households, and also proposed a variety of different approaches to estimating these various measures of household vulnerability. However,...

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Internationally Comparable Poverty Lines

Kakwani, N. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

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Remittances and poverty in Guatemala

Adams, Richard H. Jr. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

The author uses a large, nationally representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal remittances (from Guatemala), and international remittances (from the United States) on poverty in Guatemala. With only one exception, he finds that both internal and international remittances...

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How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s?

Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - In: World Bank Research Observer 19 (2004) 2, pp. 141-170

A new assessment is made of the developing world's progress against poverty. By the frugal $1 a day standard there were 1.1 billion poor people in 2001--almost 400 million fewer than 20 years earlier. During that period the number of poor people declined by more than 400 million in China, though...

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Food-Based Safety Nets and Related Programs

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

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