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Education and the Vulnerability to Food Inadequacy in Timor-Leste
Jha, Raghbendra; Dang, Tu - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
This paper uses a simple empirical approach to estimate vulnerability to food inadequacy using a cross-section data from the 2001 Timor-Leste Living Standard Measurement Survey. This measurement is based on the assumption that households are exposed to the same kind of shock. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472656
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Vulnerability and poverty in Timor-Lesté
Jha, Raghbendra; Dang, Tu - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008
Economists have long recognized that a household's well-being depends not just on its average income or expenditure, but also on the risks it faces. Hence vulnerability is a more satisfactory measure of (inadequate) welfare than poverty. We measure vulnerability as expected poverty and establish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005057559
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Vulnerability to Poverty in Fiji
Jha, Raghbendra; Dang, Tu; Sharma, K L - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008
In the extant literature either income or consumption expenditures as measured over short periods of time have been regarded as proxies for the material well-being of households. However, economists have long recognized that a household's sense of well-being depends not just on its average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005057592
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Poverty, Undernutrition and Vulnerability in Rural India: Public Works versus Food Subsidy
Jha, Raghbendra; Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008
This paper analyses the effects of access to Rural Public Works (RPW) and Public Distribution System (PDS), a public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing upon the large household data sets constructed by National Sample Survey (NSS)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106841
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Vulnerability to poverty in select Central Asian Countries
Jha, Raghbendra; Dang, Tu - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008
Economists have long recognized that a household's sense of well-being depends not just on its average income or expenditures, but also on the risks it faces. Hence vulnerability is a more satisfactory measure of welfare than poverty. In this paper we measure the extent of vulnerability as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106852
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Economic Vulnerability and Poverty in Tajikistan
Jha, Raghbendra; Dang, Tu; Tashrifov, Yusuf - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008
We examine the profile of poverty and vulnerability in Tajikistan using household level panel data for 2004 and 2005. The drop in poverty was largely due to increase in remittances from workers working overseas. People are more likely to be poor if they live in a) rural areas, b) large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106859
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Understanding the Success of an Environmental Policy: The case of the 1989-1999 Integrated Pest Management Program in Indonesia
Resosudarmo, Budy P - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
The fact that most environmental degradation occurs in developing countries shows that they face difficulties in implementing environmental policies. It is hence extremely valuable to take lessons from any instances of the successful implementation of an environmental policy in a developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861956
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Vulnerability to poverty in Papua New Guinea
Jha, Raghbendra; Dang, Tu - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008
In the extant literature either income or consumption expenditures as measured over short periods of time has been regarded as proxies for the material well-being of households. However, economists have long recognized that a household's sense of well-being depends not just on its average income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005115719
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Diffusion Indexes with Sparse Loadings
Kristensen, Johannes Tang - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2013
The use of large-dimensional factor models in forecasting has received much attention in the literature with the … model which is better suited for forecasting compared to the traditional principal components (PC) approach.We provide an … asymptotic analysis of the estimator and illustrate its merits empirically in a forecasting experiment based on US macroeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851192
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Housing price forecastability: A factor analysis
Bork, Lasse; Møller, Stig V. - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2012
-sample forecasting regressions. The predictive power of the model stays high at longer horizons. The estimated factors are strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851257