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Who Suffers from Indoor Air Pollution? Evidence from Bangladesh

Huq, Mainul - 2016

In this paper the authors investigate individuals' exposure to indoor air pollution. Using new survey data from Bangladesh, they analyze exposure at two levels - differences within households attributable to family roles, and differences across households attributable to income and education....

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Indoor Air Quality for Poor Families : New Evidence from Bangladesh

Huq, Mainul - 2016

Indoor air pollution (IAP) from cooking and heating is estimated to kill a million children annually in developing countries. To promote a better understanding of IAP, the authors investigate the determinants of IAP in Bangladesh using the latest air monitoring technology and a national...

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Indoor Air Quality for Poor Families : New Evidence from Bangladesh

Dasgupta, Susmita; Huq, Mainul; Khaliquzzaman, M. - 2013

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Who Suffers from Indoor Air Pollution? Evidence from Bangladesh

Dasgupta, Susmita; Huq, Mainul; Khaliquzzaman, M. - 2013

In this paper the authors investigate individuals' exposure to indoor air pollution. Using new survey data from Bangladesh, they analyze exposure at two levels-differences within households attributable to family roles, and differences across households attributable to income and education....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559853

The fall of the elephant : two decades of poverty increase in Côte d'Ivoire (1988 - 2008)

Cogneau, Denis; Houngbedji, Kenneth; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - 2014

(1988-2008), we tell the story of this descent into hell from the standpoint of poverty and living standards. In 2008, after … five years of civil war and another episode yet to come (2010-11), the extreme US$1.25 poverty headcount had reached a …

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The determinants of wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice (1400-1800)

Alfani, Guido; Tullio, M. Di; Fochesato, M. - 2020

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Poor yield of a rich field : an undeserving "history of poverty" in early modern Europe

Sokoll, Thomas - In: VSWG: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und … 111 (2024) 2, pp. 196-208

The new Routledge History of Poverty, c. 1450-1800 provides neither a "history" nor a coherent concept of "poverty" and …, based on the idea that the interplay of "labour" and "poverty" (epitomized in the notion of the "labouring poor") forms the … crucial key to the understanding of the decisive long-term theme in the history of poverty and poor relief in Europe from 1350 …

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Seeing credit and property rights from below : the experience of Catalan smallholders in the eighteenth century

Congost, Rosa; Garcia-Orallo, Ricard; Saguer, Enric - In: The economic history review 76 (2023) 3, pp. 759-782

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Sind hohe Standards immer gut? Eine wirtschaftsethische Perspektive

Pies, Ingo - 2013

Gemessen an den jeweiligen Bedürfnissen der Bevölkerung, können Standards in Entwicklungsländern sowohl zu hoch als auch zu niedrig sein. Beides ist möglich. Zu niedrige Standards sind oft darauf zurückzuführen, dass es an Verfahren fehlt, die kollektives Handeln ermöglichen. Übernimmt...

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The Politics of Poor Law Reform in Early Twentieth Century Ireland

Cousins, Mel - 2011

This paper looks at the reform of poor relief in Dublin (the capital city of the then Irish Free State) in the 1920s and 1930s. In particular, it examines the introduction of the Poor Relief (Dublin) Act, 1929 and the role of political parties and interest groups in shaping its final outcome....

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