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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...
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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...
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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...
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Vulnerability to Chronic Energy Deficiency : An Empirical Analysis of Women in Uttar Pradesh, India
Ramachandran, Maithili; Kumar, K.S. Kavi; Viswanathan, … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Prevalence rate of chronic energy deficiency (CED) is used as a measure of (adult) nutrition and health status for any … health status. Due to limited information base on BMI very few studies in India have analysed the determinants of CED (which … is the current health status) and even far fewer studies estimating the persons vulnerable to it (that is future health …
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The Effects of Parental Death and Chronic Poverty on Children’s Education and Health : Evidence from Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Pakpahan, Yus Medina; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
paternal death on childrens school enrollment, educational attainment, and health in Indonesia, then compare them to the effect … significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363492
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The Effects of Parental Death and Chronic Poverty on Children’s Education and Health : Evidence from Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Pakpahan, Yus Medina; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
paternal death on childrens school enrollment, educational attainment, and health in Indonesia, then compare them to the effect … significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363555
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Can Insurance Reduce Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure?
Joglekar, Rama - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
In India, the out-of-pocket health expenditure by households accounts for around 70 percent of the total expenditure on … health. Large out-of-pocket payments may reduce consumption expenditure on other goods and services and push households into … poverty. Recently, health insurance has been considered as one of the possible instruments in reducing impoverishing effects …
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How Low-Carbon Green Growth Can Reduce Inequalities
Anbumozhi, Venkatachalam; Bauer, Armin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
Half of the world’s population—3 billion people—lives below the poverty line, and Asia has the largest share. In pursuit of sustainable economic development and poverty alleviation, there is great potential among low-income households for green consumption, production,...
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