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The aim of this article is to analyse in depth the interactions of growth and poverty in Syria, which undertook reforms … agriculture a decreasing one. Agricultural and land-policy reforms could have had a negative impact on poverty, despite their …
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This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on estimation … methods that focus on the poor. Using data from Tunisia, we estimate ‘focused’ transfer schemes that highly improve anti-poverty … targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. In terms of P2, the …
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Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were biased due to the neglect of some important methodological issues …. This led to the so-called ‘Burkinabè Growth-Poverty-Paradox’, i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but almost … constant poverty. We estimate that poverty significantly decreased between 1994 and 2003 at least on the national level, i …
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How has poverty changed during the 1997-99 period, when the Peruvian economic performance deteriorated seriously under …-section comparisons of poverty indicators. In this paper we extend the analysis first by examining the robustness of these kind of … comparisons by considering sampling errors and stochastic dominance and second, by analyzing poverty transitions for households …
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such biases. As an empirical illustration we use the case of Burkina Faso and the growth incidence curve and poverty change …
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This article attempts to assess empirically the impact of remittances on household expenditure and relative poverty in … poverty. The results show a statistically significant and positive impact of hose remittances on recipient households …’ expenditures. They are also significantly associated with a decline in the probability of being in poverty for rural households; it …
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In this paper, we examine the effect of migrants’ remittances on poverty and inequality. The survey data were collected … scenario without remittances; this is then compared with its current income. We find that the poverty rate and the …
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