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Comparing incomes when needs differ: equivalisation for the extra costs of disability in the UK

Zaidi, Asghar; Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Equivalisation of incomes for household size and composition is accepted practice when measuring poverty and inequality; adjustments to take account of other variations in needs are rarely made. This paper explores the financial implications of one possible source of additional needs:...

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The wealth and poverty of nations: true PPPs for 141 countries

Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

I set out a new method for estimating true (Konüs) PPPs. Household consumption per head deflated by these PPPs answers the question: by how much must the average expenditure per head of poor country A be increased to enable the typical inhabitant of A to enjoy the same utility level as the...

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Cooperative environmental governance and waste-to-energy technologies in Asia

Forsyth, Tim - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

the Philippines and India, and especially the choice between the technologies of incineration, pyrolysis and …

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Tenancy in Palanpur

Tyagi, Ashish; Himanshu, Himanshu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

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Credit in rural India: a case study

Dreze, Jean; Lanjouw, Peter; Sharma, Naresh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

studies of credit in rural India. …

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Investigating rationality in wage-setting

Bhalotra, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

This paper investigates the efficiency wage hypothesis and derives a tractable expression for the profit loss incurred by deviations from the efficiency wage. The extent of the wage deviation can be inferred from production function parameters. The resulting profit loss shown to depend upon the...

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Minority representation and policy choices: the significance of legislator identity

Pande, Rohini - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

law in India to test this prediction empirically. The principal finding is that minority representation has increased …

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Building deliberative public–private partnerships for waste management in Asia

Forsyth, Tim - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

–private partnerships in waste-to-energy projects in the Philippines and India to identify how principles of institutional design may …

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Non-farm diversification and rural poverty decline: a perspective from Indian sample survey and village study data

Himanshu, Himanshu; Lanjouw, Peter; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper studies the evolution of the rural non-farm sector in India and its contribution to the decline of poverty … close study over a period of six decades. Sample survey data indicate that the non-farm sector in rural India has grown … in India as both particularly closely linked to rural non-farm development and recording particularly high rates of urban …

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Poverty, inequality and mobility in Palanpur: observations from Palanpur

Himanshu, Himanshu; Bakshi, Ishan; Dufour, Camille - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

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