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Key Indicators for Family Planning Projects.

Bulatao, R.A. - World Bank Group - 1995

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The Contribution of Income Components to Income Inequality in South Africa. A Decomposable Gini Analysis.

Leibbrandt, M.V.; Woolard, C.D.; Woolard, I.D. - World Bank Group - 1996

much new work has been devoted to deriving and extending decomposable inequality and poverty measures which bridge the … partition inequality into within-race group and between-race group components. This paper pushes such a programme by using a … determining overall income inequality. …

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Uganda Economic Update, 10th Edition, December 2017 : Accelerating Uganda's Development, Ending Child Marriage, Educating Girls

World Bank Group - 2017

Following decades of sustained economic growth during which Uganda made dramatic progresstowards poverty reduction, the country has recently experienced a period of economic growthslow down. To return to higher rates of economic growth and poverty reduction, the Government mustaddress...

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People and Forest Interface : Contribution of Liberia's Forests to Household Incomes, Subsistence, and Resilience

World Bank Group - 2020

Liberia is one of the most forested countries in West Africa, with more than two thirds of its land surface covered by forest. The National Forest Inventory, conducted by the Liberia Forestry Development Authority in 2018 and 2019, estimates the forest cover in Liberia to be 6.69 million...

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SOCIOECONMIC DETERMINANTS OF FERTILITY IN COTE D'IVOIRE.

AINSWORTH, M. - World Bank Group - 1989

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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,...

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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

drives children into work. It is argued here that a negative income elasticity only tells us that child leisure (or education …

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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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