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Since the 1990s, poverty and the ways to reducing it have become a central paradigm in development economics, not only … theme of research in development economics, by poverty and its reduction, together with an expansion of the meanings of the … concept of poverty. The key points of the paper are that this shift represents a crucial turning point in the conceptual …
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French but also European economies are driven by micro, small and medium enterprises. However, evidence shows that micro-enterprises, representing 99 per cent of all newly created businesses, suffer from a lack of external resources, especially those created by socially excluded persons....
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inference with poverty indices is satisfactory. We find that the major cause is the extreme sensitivity of many inequality …
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Traditional poverty measures fail to indicate the degree of risk of becoming or remaining poor that households are … confronted to. They can therefore be misleading in the context of implementing poverty reduction policies. In this paper I … propose a method to estimate an index of ex ante vulnerability to poverty, defined as the probability of being poor in the …
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on poverty to explore the poverty-reducing role of social protection during financial crises. Using advanced panel data … techniques to deal with endogeneity issues, we find that financial crises are associated with slower reductions in the poverty … headcount and the poverty gap. Crises lead to 526,400-555,000 additional poor people and to an increase of 4.7-10.6 percentage …
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate the relative influence of neighbourhood and individual practices of care utilization in Dakar (Senegal). The data from a research program on urban malaria, made in Dakar, Senegal between 2008 and 2009. The sample was based on a two-stage sampling. A...
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Proxy-means testing (PMT) is a method used to assess household or individual welfare level based on a set of observable indicators. The accuracy, and therefore usefulness of PMT relies on the selection of indicators that produce accurate predictions of household welfare. In this paper I propose...
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Extractive industries face two main challenges in terms of CSR and poverty reduction: 1) recognize that societal … performance indices meant to be complementary: the Poverty Exit Index (PEI) and the Relational Capability Index (RCI). We show …
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epidemiology tools with the literature on poverty traps. A theoretical model of rational protective behaviour in response to … epidemiology and poverty are solved.ResultsTwo important conclusions emerge from the model. First, agents increase their protective …". Second, a 'malaria trap' defined as the result of malaria reinforcing poverty while poverty reduces the ability to deal with …
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In this paper, we study the links between time use, informal labor market, and poverty measures in two countries that … strongly differ on their level of development, by means of a multidimensional poverty index, and a bivariate probit model to …
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