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Social Protection in Pakistan : Managing Household Risks and Vulnerability
World Bank - 2012
The report is the result of an inter-institutional collaborative effort between the Government of Pakistan, civil society, and international donors. This report finds that while Pakistan implements a wide array of social protection programs, the effectiveness of these programs could be...
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Estimating individual vulnerability to poverty with pseudo-panel data
Bourguignon, François - 2004
"Bourguignon, Goh, and Kim present an original method to study individual earning dynamics using repeated cross-sectional data. Because panel data of individuals are seldom available in developing countries, it is difficult to study individual earning dynamics and related issues such as the...
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Gender, time use, and models of the household
Apps, Patricia - 2004
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Analyzing food security using household survey data
Moltedo, Ana; Lokshin, Michael; Troubat, Nathalie; … - World Bank - 2014
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Insurance and liquidity : panel evidence
Shankar, Rashmi - 2005
"The author presents evidence that balance sheet effects are critical determinants of both the likelihood of a crisis and of income losses following a crisis. She tests the validity of "insurance" and "liquidity" models of currency crisis. Both models predict that the occurrence of a balance of...
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Explaining U.S. immigration, 1971-98
Clark, Ximena - 2004
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China's management of enterprise assets : the state as shareholder
1997
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Does More Power for Shareholders Undermine Board Stewardship?
World Bank - 2012
The level of shareholders' expertise and experience needs to be questioned as they wield greater clout and become more … deeply involved in strategic issues that should be the board's purview. This misdirected involvement distracts shareholders … from their principal and most important role: electing and overseeing boards. To play that role, shareholders must have the …
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Wealth : crucial but not sufficient evidence from Pakistan on economic growth, child labor, and schooling
Hou, Xiaohui - 2009
"The relationship between wealth and child labor has been widely examined. This paper uses three rounds of time …-series, cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between wealth and child labor and schooling. The paper finds that wealth … enrollment for rural girls from 1998 to 2006. This increase is independent of wealth (measured by per capita expenditure …
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Household financial assets in the process of development
Honohan, Patrick - 2006
"Systematic information on household financial asset holdings in developing countries is very sparse. The author …
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