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This paper estimates the household income growth rates implied by food demand in a sample of urban Chinese households …, suggesting that urban inflation up to 2005 in China was “pro-poor,” in the sense that the increase in the cost of living for …
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The present research extends the extant literature by investigating the hypothesis on whether marriage can be a substitute for financial inclusion in energy poverty reduction in Ghana. Pooled data and two stage least squares techniques are used in the estimation process and the validity of the...
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In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty reduction was especially successful. Thailand and Viet Nam are two emerging market economies where poverty rates are now below 10% and are declining further. Despite this success,...
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in Iran. The household income and expenditure survey in 2020 was used to calculate compensated price elasticities using … the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QAIDS). Results showed negative and less than 1 own-price elasticities for all … food items, with a sensitivity to changes in income greater than one for demand of cereals, cooking oil, and fruits. Then …
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this paper, we employ German household expenditure data to estimate exact equivalence scales using several parametric …
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Collective models identifying resource shares are promising tools to analyse intra-household welfare and poverty …
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This paper examines the allocation of resources of poverty rates within households in Suriname. To this end we employ a bargaining model estimation framework that allows one to identify the allocation of resources across adult and children males and females. Our results using the Suriname...
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This paper assesses the role of financial inclusion in moderating the incidence of entrepreneurship on energy poverty in Ghana. The assessment is made by using pooled data and two stage least squares. The exposition builds from the 7th (GLSS7) and 6th (GLSS6) rounds focusing on the Ghana Living...
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In this paper, we examine the issue of consumption insurance in the context of urban China, where the wage structure … and social security system changed dramatically during the 1990s. Using a national representative household survey from …
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