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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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Remittances, Trade Liberalisation, and Poverty in Pakistan : The Role of Excluded Variables in Poverty Change Analysis
Siddiqui, Rizwana; Kemal, A. R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This study attempts to assess the impact of two shocks - trade liberalisation and a decline in remittances from abroad- on poverty in Pakistan using a CGE framework. It is found that tariff reduction in the absence of a decline in remittances reduces poverty, as measured by the head count,...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363525
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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 … earnings and education of children. The paper is the most systematic attempt to date to show the links between family size and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363633
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Objective Measures of Family Welfare for Individual Targeting : Results from Pilot Project on Community Based Monitoring System in Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Akhmadi; Hastuti; Toyamah, Nina - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
This report documents the results of a pilot project on a new poverty monitoring system that improves the current system in three areas. First, it involves the locals in monitoring poverty in their own area. Second, the poverty indicators are sensitive to local conditions, accurate, and cannot...
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Economic Development in Orissa : Growth Without Inclusion?
Panda, Manoj - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
The economy of Orissa has been lagging behind the national economy by several decades. Its per capita net state domestic product, a measure of average income, stood at Rs.20200 for 2006-07 which falls behind the national average by about 35 per cent. Moreover, the gross domestic product of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363559
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The Effectiveness of the Raskin Program
Hastuti; Sumarto, Sudarno; Suryahadi, Asep; Mawardi, Sulton - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
The Raskin program is a subsidized rice program for poor families which provides 10 kg of rice per poor households at the price of Rp1,000 per kg. This report describes the findings of the study undertaken by the SMERU Research Institute to uncover the effectiveness of the Raskin program in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363560
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How Well Can We Target Resources with “Quick-and-Dirty†Data? : Empirical Results from Cambodia
Fujii, Tomoki - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Poverty reduction is a top priority for international organizations, governments and non-governmental organizations. The aid resources available for poverty reduction are, however, severely constrained in many countries. Minimizing the leakage of aid resources to the non-poor is a key to...
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