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Phenomenology of financial vulnerability in French municipalities of 2,000 to 10,000 inhabitants

Tairou, Akim A. - EconWPA - 1997

Municipalities financial distress (which we refer as financial vulnerability) is a recurrent concern of French political life. However, there is no universal and unique definition of financial distress. This paper presents a synthesis of some possible definitions and display the real importance...

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Debt-Deflation: Concepts, and a Stylised Model

Peter, Goetz von - EconWPA - 2005

This paper proposes a model of how agents adjust their asset holdings in response to losses in general equilibrium. By emphasising the relation between deflation and financial distress, we capture some original features of the early debt-deflation literature, such as distress selling,...

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Financial Education and Savings Outcomes in Individual Development Accounts

Clancy, Margaret; Grinstein-Weiss, Michal; Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) are subsidized savings accounts. Unlike other subsidized savings accounts such as Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) or 401(k) plans, IDAs are targeted to the poor, provide subsidies through matches rather than through tax breaks, and require...

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Measuring Savings

Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

Development depends on saving. But what exactly is saving, and how is it measured? This paper defines saving and describes several measures of financial savings. The measures account for the passage of time and for the three stages of saving: putting in (depositing), keeping in (maintaining a...

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Saving, IDA Programs, and Effects of IDAs: A Survey of Participants

Moore, Amanda; Beverly, Sondra; Schreiner, Mark; … - EconWPA - 2001

Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) are special savings accounts designed to help people build assets to reach life goals and to achieve long-term security. Account-holders receive matching funds as they save for purposes such as buying a first home, attending job training, going to college,...

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Linking Representative Household Models with Household Surveys for Poverty Analysis A Comparison of Alternative Methodologies

Agénor, Pierre-Richard; Chen, Derek; Grimm, Michael - EconWPA - 2004

terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. These … different results in absolute terms, we show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty effects …

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Non-farm employment in small-scale enterprises in Romania: policy and development issues

Davis, Junior; Gaburici, Angela - EconWPA - 2005

The aim of this paper is to summarise the results of a non-farm micro- enterprise survey in rural and peri-urban Romania and to examine their impact on the development of sustainable rural livelihoods. As these firms operate in fixed locations and are therefore more easily located and observed,...

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Combining the Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Poverty Measurement and Analysis

White, Howard - EconWPA - 2005

This paper highlights the key characteristics of the quantitative and qualitative approaches to poverty measurement and … in analytical work on poverty. The main conclusion of this paper is that sole reliance on either only the quantitative … approach or only the qualitative approach in measuring and analyzing poverty is often likely to be less desirable than …

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Nutritional Aspects of Poverty among Casual Labourer Households in Shillong (India)

Mishra, SK; Lyngskor, JW - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we report our findings as to the extent of poverty among the casual labourers of Shillong, the capital … city of Meghalaya, India. Two views of poverty have been considered; first at the per capita (per month) income level and …

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Poverty, Dietary Imbalance and Sickness among Casual Labourer Households in Shillong (India)

Mishra, SK; Lyngskor, JW - EconWPA - 2005

The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual … energy. Some 38.4 percent of these households are below poverty line (fixed at Rs. 396 per capita per month). Poorer … households have larger family size. Consequently, some 46.5 percent persons in the sample households are below poverty line. The …

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