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(DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. … technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to generate a time series …
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investigating the impact of remittances on consumption, investment, imports and output. It estimates short and long-run multiplier … effects of exogenous shocks of remittances, with data from five Mediterranean countries. The analysis reveals a uniform … changes, in the sense that the good done to growth by rising remittances is not as great as the bad done by falling …
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the migrant and his family, treating remittances as an endogenous variable in the migration system. Behind this model is … present or future consumption of remittances. The model has two purposes: estimate the relative significance of behavioural …
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We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality …, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005, which is followed by falling inequality thereafter. Using an … inequality decomposition technique, we show that the rising inequality between 1991 and 2005 was, for the most part, driven by …
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poor growth, then summarizing the linkages between inequality, poverty, and pro poor growth, before proceeding to analyze …Pro Poor Growth has become a central concern to achieve sustainable poverty reduction in developing countries. Despite …
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poverty reduction in developing countries. First, it attempts to clarify the debates about the definition and measurement of … (particularly goals 2‐6) and assess the linkages between income and non‐income poverty along the entire distribution. This can be of … critical importance for poverty monitoring as well as policy interventions including the relative merits of growth versus …
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poor growth, then summarizing the linkages between inequality, poverty, and pro poor growth, before proceeding to analyze …Pro Poor Growth has become a central concern to achieve sustainable poverty reduction in developing countries. Despite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005635377
-eective way to identify income-poor beneciaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether …-parametric regression- techniques, we show that the resulting leakage can largely be conned to the non-poor close to the poverty line …. However, simulating the eect on poverty measures of a uniform transfer to beneciaries across inclusion rates suggests that the …
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This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …
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