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Reddy, Sanjay G.; Minoiu, Camelia - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates how estimates of the extent and trend of income poverty in China between 1990 and 2001 vary as a result of alternative plausible assumptions concerning key parameters that influence the poverty line and estimated consumption levels. Our methodology focuses on the...

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Has world poverty really fallen during the 1990s?

Reddy, Sanjay G.; Minoiu, Camelia - EconWPA - 2005

We evaluate the claim that world consumption poverty has fallen during the 1990s in light of alternative assumptions about the extent of initial poverty and the rate of subsequent poverty reduction in China, India, and the rest of the developing world. We assess the extent of poverty using two...

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Some practical issues in the evaluation of heterogeneous labour market programmes by matching methods

Lechner, Michael - EconWPA - 2005

Recently, several studies have analysed active labour market policies by using a recently proposed matching estimator for multiple programmes. Since there is only very limited practical experience with this estimator, this paper checks its sensitivity with resprect to issues that are of...

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Crop Yield and Price Distributional Effects on Revenue Hedging

Tirupattur, Viswanath; Hauser, Robert J.; Chaherli, Nabil M. - EconWPA - 1996

The use of crop yield futures contracts is examined. The expectation being modeled here reflects that of an Illinois … corn and soybeans producer at planting, of revenue realized at harvest. The effects of using price and crop yield contracts … alternatives: 1) a revenue hedge using just price futures, 2) a revenue hedge using crop yield futures, 3) an unhedged scenario …

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