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Determinants of Urban Poverty : The Case of Medium Sized City in Pakistan
Awan, Masood Sarwar; Iqbal, Nasir - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Urban poverty, which is distinct from rural poverty due to demographic, economic and political aspects remain hitherto unexplored, at the city level in Pakistan. We have examined the determinants of urban poverty in Sargodha, a medium-size city of Pakistan. The analysis is based on the survey of...
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Income, Public Social Services, and Capability Development : A Cross-district Analysis of Pakistan
Siddiqui, Rizwana - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Is household income enough for human development or should government direct resources towards the provision of social services to improve capabilities of individuals? The former is emphasised by the World Bank, and the latter by the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP). This paper tests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363537
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Alternative Means Testing Options Using CBMS
Reyes, Celia M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
The study proposes an alternative means to the present manner of identifying eligible Philhealth beneficiaries through the use of three criteria, namely : income, ownership of assets and socioeconomic characteristics, and electricity consumption. The information/data gathered in evaluating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363587
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Predicting Consumption Poverty Using Non-consumption Indicators : Experiments Using Indonesian Data
Sumarto, Sudarno; Suryadarma, Daniel; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Although consumption expenditure data is crucial for assessing the level of peoples welfare and calculating important welfare measures such as the poverty headcount rate, collecting such data requires significant time and effort. In this study, we experiment with three approaches to predict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363613
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Poverty, Vulnerability and Family Size : Evidence from the Philippines
Aniceto C. Orbeta Jr. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
This paper shows how large family size can be an important contributor to household poverty. It presents results from recent research by the author using nationally representative household survey data that demonstrate clearly how large family size can contribute to poverty and vulnerability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363633
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Construction and Validation of ‘Science Culture Index’
Shukla, Rajesh; Bauer, Martin W - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Countries world-wide routinely collate statistics on STS performance indicators such as R&D expenditure, science …, but often isolated, attempts to define complementary public understanding of science (PUS) indicators including concepts … controversial. Thus, little progress has been achieved to explicitly combine STS performance indicators and PUS indicators in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363660
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Delivering Access to Safe Drinking Water and Adequate Sanitation in Pakistan
Khan, Faheem Jehangir; Javed, Yaser - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Provision of safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and personal hygiene are vital for the sustainable environmental conditions and reducing the incidence of diarrhoea, malaria, trachoma, hepatitis A & B and morbidity levels. Not having access to water and sanitation is a courteous expression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365294
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A Globally Consistent Framework for Reliability-based Trade Statistics Reconciliation in the Presence of an Entrepôt
Wang, Zhi; Gehlhar, Mark; Yao, Shunli - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper develops a mathematicla programming model to reconcile trade statistics subject to a set of global consistency conditions in the presence of an entrepot. Initial data reliability serves a key function for governing the magnitude of adjustment. Through a two-stage optimization...
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Destined for Destitution : Intergenerational Poverty Persistence in Indonesia
Pakpahan, Yus Medina; Suryadarma, Daniel; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
We estimate intergenerational poverty persistence in Indonesia using a panel dataset. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such study looking at the issue in the Indonesian context. Different from the majority of studies on this issue, we include controls for several household and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363335
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Poverty-reducing or Poverty-inducing? A CGE-based Analysis of Foreign Capital Inflows in Pakistan
Siddiqui, Rizwana; Kemal, A. R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
liberalisation, FKI benefits unskilled labour more, and poverty is decreased irrespective of the choice of poverty indicators. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363494