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Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...
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We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) estimator, based on influence functions to examine...
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Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
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Using modern methods for analyzing multi-level data, we find that, by and large, citizens of OECD countries are more satisfied with the way democracy works in their country if more environmental policies are in place and if environmental quality is higher. We also document that parents care...
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increased urban poverty. Using a large repeated cross-section household survey data from 1986 to 2000, this study maps out the … change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found … that the increase in the poverty rate in the 1990s is associated with the increase in the relative food price, and the need …
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poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …
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Poverty among ethnic minorities and the majority in rural China for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 is investigated … line, almost one-third of the ethnic minorities experienced poverty during the three years studied while the corresponding … ethnic majority. The relatively high poverty rates for ethnic minorities in rural China are found to be due to higher rates …
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poverty level, and the health of the population including total health expenditures and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. The …
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and absolute poverty alleviation, although some important counter-examples emerge. …
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