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Zambia during the 1990s, and to explore the poverty impacts of non-traditional export growth. We look at consumption and …In this paper, we have two main objectives: to investigate the links between globalization and poverty observed in …
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We examine the effects of cold weather periods on family budgets and on nutritional outcomes in poor American families. Expenditures on food and home fuels are tracked by linking the Consumer Expenditure Survey to temperature data. Using the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination...
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We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various … related to the diets of children. In contrast, poverty predicts dietary outcomes among preschoolers. Among adults, both … poverty and food insecurity questions are good predictors of many dietary outcomes …
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school and household inputs, and test its predictions in two very different low-income country settings - Zambia and India …
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"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since …
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The success of multi-faceted "graduation" programs at reducing poverty raises three questions: can the impacts of these … the government of Zambia yielded consumption and earnings increases comparable to graduation programs, without negative … bundled intervention, indicating a streamlined package could be a promising poverty alleviation strategy for developing …
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We use the prices of credit card asset-backed securities to study the market risk premium associated with unsecured consumer credit risk. The consumer credit risk premium has historically been comparable to high yield corporate bond spreads, but has increased dramatically since the financial...
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and agricultural production, we conducted a two-year randomized controlled trial with small-scale farmers in rural Zambia …
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use in urban Zambia by combining billing records, randomized price variation, and a lab-experimental measure of …
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Since 2003, Zambia has been engaged in a large-scale, centrally coordinated national anti-Malaria campaign which has …
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