Similar Search Results

Evaluating different approaches to estimating vulnerability

Ligon, Ethan; Schechter, Laura - World Bank Group - 2004

A number of researchers have recently proposed a variety of different `vulnerability'measures designed to capture the welfare consequences of risk for poor households, and also proposed a variety of different approaches to estimating these various measures of household vulnerability. However,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676651

Consumption insurance and vulnerability to poverty : a synthesis of the evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico and Russia

Skoufias, Emmanuel; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - World Bank Group - 2004

This paper brings together some of the empirical work conducted by IFPRI researchers which investigates linkages among the degree of consumption insurance, households'vulnerability to poverty, and household use of formal and informal coping mechanisms using the same empirical approach in five...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676666

How poor are the old? a survey of evidence from 44 countries

Whitehouse, Edward - World Bank Group - 2000

This paper surveys 11 international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution, and the elderly. Although it focuses on OECD economies, some 44 countries are covered. The paper addresses a series of questions. What level are the incomes of the elderly relative to the population as a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676732

Earnings inequality in transition economies of Central Europetrends and patterns during the 1990s

Rutkowski, Jan J. - World Bank Group - 2001

relative wages that have underlined the rise in earnings inequality. The paper finds that the widening of earnings distribution … was concentrated in the early phase of transition, and the trend towards greater inequality in most countries tapered off … characterized by high but not exorbitant earnings dispersion. In most transitional economies of Central Europe earnings inequality …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676807

An overview of labor markets world-wide : key trends and major policy issues

Betcherman, Gordon - World Bank Group - 2002

This paper provides an overview of labor market trends, and key policy issues worldwide. It begins with a statistical overview of major indicators relating to the labor market, highlighting the diverging experiences between the high-income countries, and many developing regions. It then reviews...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676818

Private pension systems : cross-country investment performance

Musalem, Alberto R.; Pasquini, Ricardo - World Bank Group - 2012

This study investigates the performance of private pensions systems across countries a topic which has yet to be adequately addressed in the literature. Specifically, this study examines the relationship between pension fund performance (as captured by gross real rates of return and the three...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548908

Who benefits from social assistance in the Philippines? Evidence from the latest national household surveys

Fernandez, Luisa; Velarde, Rashiel - World Bank Group - 2012

This note discusses two of the Philippines'biggest social assistance programs the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, the government's first conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, and the rice subsidy program of the National Food Authority (NFA), one of the country's long-standing food-based...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010828446

Unlocking potential : tackling economic, institutional and social constraints of informal entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa : main findings and policy conclusions

Grimm, Michael; Hoeven, Rolph van der; Lay, Jann - World Bank Group - 2011

In the past two decades, research on the informal sector has emphasized the heterogeneity of this part of the economy, example in terms of entry costs, firm size, and access to credit, forward- and backward linkages as well as human and physical capital endowments. Yet, not much research has...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010828450

Openness and technological innovation in East Asia : have they increased the demand for skills?

Almeida, Rita K. - World Bank Group - 2009

This paper asks whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. The author explores a unique firm level data set across eight countries. Results strongly support the idea that greater openness and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676697

Indexing pensions

Piggott, John; Sane, Renuka - World Bank Group - 2009

Pension indexation should anchor the parameters of the pension system to one or more economic and demographic variables to ensure that the system is implemented in a sustainable way, while minimizing distortions affecting important economic choices. Arguing that financial sustainability,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676716

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last