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Comparaisons de la Pauverte. Concepts et methodes.

Ravallion, M - World Bank Group - 1996

Les comparaisons de la pauverte - qu'elles cherchent a determiner si la pauverte a augmente, ou en quel endroit elle est la plus prononcee - sont generalement obscurcies par des imprecisions conceptuelles et methodologiques. La presesnte monographie est axee sur les besoins de l'economiste ou de...

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Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Identity, and Poverty in Mexico Urban Profile : An Exploratory Study

World Bank Group - 2001

While information exists on the process of indigenous migration to urban centers, there is very little systematic data on the current situation of urban indigenous populations in Mexico. This study analyzes the situation of five indigenous ethnic groups in three urban centers of Mexico: (a) the...

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The Problem Is They See Us As A Whole : Explaining Gender and Ethnicity-based Inequalities Among the Roma in Serbia

World Bank Group - 2019

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Disparate Outcomes : A Multisectoral Nutrition Assessment and Gap Analysis of Vietnam's Ethnic Minority Populations

World Bank Group - 2019

On average, Vietnam has achieved remarkable improvements in nutritional status in recent decades, but improvements in national aggregates mask wide disparities and a persistent 'very high' burden among disadvantaged ethnic minority groups. Between 2000 and 2010, national stunting rates dropped...

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Drivers of Socio-Economic Development Among Ethnic Minority Groups in Vietnam

World Bank Group - 2019

While Vietnam has now reached lower middle-income country status, the gaps between the ethnic minority population and the majority group are evident and widening over time. In addition, ethnic minority groups are different in terms of where they are in these gaps. This study attempts to examine...

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Evaluating different approaches to estimating vulnerability

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

combining the efficiency of the Chauduri estimator with the good properties of the authors (in environments with measurement …

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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...

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Is child work necessary?

Bhalotra, Sonia - World Bank Group - 2001

This paper investigates the hypothesis that children work because their income contribution is necessary for the household to meet subsistence expenditures. It uses the fact that a testable implication of this hypothesis is that the wage elasticity of child labor supply is negative. Previous...

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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...

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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 …

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