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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy
Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
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 … Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822811
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Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan: A Distribution-Sensitive Analysis of Household-Level Impacts
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542045
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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The Experience of Afghan Households
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552949
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Determinants of Income Mobility and Household Poverty Dynamics in South Africa
Woolard, Ingrid; Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762438
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
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The Unintended Consequences of Education Policies on South African Participation and Unemployment
Burger, Rulof; van der Berg, Servaas; von Fintel, Dieter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In the late 1990s the South African Department of Education implemented two policies that were meant to reduce the large number of over-age learners in the school system: schools were no longer allowed to accept students who were more than two years older than the correct grade-age and students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889992
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Trends in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education among Black South Africans
Magejo, Prudence; Benhura, Miracle; Gwatidzo, Tendai - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates trends in intergenerational transmission of education among black South Africans – changes in correlation between parents' and children's education. Using data for 1954-1993 birth cohorts, we find a decrease in intergenerational transmission of education over the last...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959732
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Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in South Africa
Pugatch, Todd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Re-enrollment in school following a period of dropout is a common feature of the South African school to work transition that has been largely ignored in both the literature on South Africa and the wider literature on sequential schooling choice. In this paper, I quantify the importance of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646297
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Foreign Direct Investment, Black Economic Empowerment and Labour Productivity in South Africa
Mebratie, Anagaw Derseh; Bedi, Arjun S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced technologies and other intangible assets which may spill over to the host country and allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353425
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The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from South Africa
Kerr, Andrew; Teal, Francis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper we analyse the relative importance of individual ability and labour market institutions, including public sector wage setting and trade unions, in determining earnings differences across different types of employment. To do this we use the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839295