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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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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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"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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important household characteristics for predicting consumption are the number of children, the number of family members, and the … households. At present, Tajikistan's system of social assistance exerts almost no downward influence on poverty rates. This note … needy families whose children attend school. This program pays benefits to selected households if their children enroll in …
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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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non poor households into poverty, and poor households into deeper poverty; and 3) to promote investment in human and … medium run and of interrupting the intergenerational cycle of poverty. This vision is fully consistent with the World Bank … programs help create the resilience, equity and access to jobs and opportunities essential to save lives, reduce poverty and …
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Despite strong economic growth and falling poverty over the last decade, many households continue to live on the edge … of poverty. The last decade in Indonesia has seen a return to strong economic growth, and the poverty rate has fallen … from 23.4 percent (1999) to 12.5 percent (2011). The falling overall poverty rate, however, partially masks a high degree …
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