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Workshop on Strengthening Disability Measurement across South Asian Countries
World Bank - 2012
thinking on disability measurement; from census to surveys; policy dimensions of disability measurement - Brazil; good …
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Poverty Assessment : Poverty in Pakistan - Vulnerabilities, Social Caps, and Rural Dynamics
World Bank - 2013
This report is part of an ongoing project to understand poverty, growth, and human development in Pakistan. It argues … understand Pakistan's inability to take sufficient advantage of the growth that it has enjoyed in the past, to attract investment … mitigating poverty and broadening access to social services in Pakistan. Neither debt reform nor the mere availability of donor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012558772
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Natural disasters and the dynamics of intangible assets
López, Ramón - 2009
"Empirical evidence suggests that the higher-order effects of natural disasters, which affect intangible assets, may be even more important than the material inter-industry effects. However, most existing general equilibrium models ignore higher order effects concerning human capital. Moreover,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394168
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Measuring health as a component of living standards
Ho, Teresa J. - 1982
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Measuring skilled migration rates : the case of small states
Docquier, Frédéric - 2009
"Recent changes in information and communication technologies have contributed to a dramatic increase in the degree of integration and interdependency of countries, markets, and people. Against this background, one aspect of particular concern for small states is the international movement of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394121
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On defining and measuring the informal sector
Arabsheibani, G. Reza - 2006
"A range of alternative empirical definitions of informal activity have been employed in the literature. Choice of definition is often dictated by data availability. Different definitions may imply very different conceptual understandings of informality. In this paper the authors investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522194
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On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world
Ravallion, Martin - 2005
"Recent literature and new data help determine plausible bounds to some key demographic differences between the poor and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522620
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Analyzing urban poverty : a summary of methods and approaches
Baker, Judy - 2004
"In recent years an extensive body of literature has emerged on the definition, measurement, and analysis of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522935
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Estimating individual vulnerability to poverty with pseudo-panel data
Bourguignon, François - 2004
larger effort in the vice presidency to improve measurement of vulnerability to poverty"--World Bank web site …
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On the measurement of market-oriented reforms
Soto, Raimundo - 2004
"Loayza and Soto present policy and outcome-based ways of measuring the progress of market-oriented reforms in both traditional areas of first-generation reform and the areas of institutional reform that have been emphasized lately. These policy areas are the domestic financial system,...
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