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"Households in rural Colombia are confronted with a variety of violent threats: attacks and displacement threats by guerrillas and paramilitaries, gang violence among drug traffickers, and high common delinquency. In this context, households have to adjust their day-to-day decisions, including...
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"This paper analyzes changes in the allocation of child labor within the household in reaction to exogenous shocks … compensated for some of the intra-household differences, as they reduced child labor more for older boys who used to work more and … suggest that time allocation and specialization patterns in child labor within the household are important factors to …
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Senegal has a relatively low child mobility rate (children who leave their parents). Yet, concern has been raised with … a rural household survey that aimed to quantify child mobility practices and identify the features of the households … from which the children come. The vulnerability of rural households to risks and shocks related to climatic conditions like …
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Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. This report presents results from a household, village, and facility survey on Maternal and …
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, especially when analyzing their effect on poverty. This implies that the analysis of trade reform on social welfare cannot be … estimated through a CGE model (GTAP) and then mapped into the welfare function of the household using household survey data. The … empirical approach the author uses aims to measure the impact of Doha implementation by tracing changes in the household prices …
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The World Bank’s Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund supported a randomized controlled trial from 2015-2018 to assess the extent to which subsidized microloans can enable households to build and use improved toilets. The loans, which carried zero interest, included toilet installation and were...
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This report on measuring poverty using household consumption summarizes the work undertaken as part of the Brazil … Poverty Measurement Study (BRAPOV) that supported a program of analytical work and technical support via an in …-depth assessment of the measurement of poverty and inequality in Brazil. The survey not only presented an opportunity for in …
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poverty, and respond to natural disasters; coupled with (ii) a longer term approach for strengthening social security …
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