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-2016 poverty analysis study, by taking a closer look at some of the household-level welfare trends between 2011 and 2016 … underperformed. Poverty in Ethiopia deceased substantially over the past decade, although by less than what would have been expected …
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This discussion paper constructs a consistent, nationwide poverty profile of Cambodia to support the government …'s effort to strengthen the design of poverty reduction policies. Basic data are given on the level and distribution of living … standards as measured by per capita household consumption expenditures. The authors use the Socioeconomic Survey of Cambodia …
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both lesing poverty and sustaining household welfare on a long-term basis. …The alleviation of poverty has been the prime objective of small-scale targeted credit programs such as the Grameen … Bank of Bangladesh. Based on household survey data, this paper concludes that these programs can play an important role in …
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Government and the private sector have complementary roles in promoting development and in fighting poverty. …
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This study uses the Viet Nam Living Standards Survey of 1992-93 to examine the association between household living …
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both lesing poverty and sustaining household welfare on a long-term basis. …The alleviation of poverty has been the prime objective of small-scale targeted credit programs such as the Grameen … Bank of Bangladesh. Based on household survey data, this paper concludes that these programs can play an important role in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005479232
A poverty line helps focus the attention of governments and civil society on the living conditions of the poor. In … practice, there is typically not one monetary poverty line but many, reflecting the fact that poverty lines serve two distinct …
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This paper is concerned with the derivation of a welfare indicator for households from consumption data. It examines, illustrating with reference to data for ecuador, several of the steps involved in contructing consumption aggregates and highlights some of the principles which should guide the...
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This brief is based on analysis of the 2011-12 household budget survey (HBS) implemented by Central Administration for …-response, it only includes 2,476 participating households. Poverty numbers presented in this note are not comparable with poverty … also due to differences in the methodology for constructing welfare aggregate and the poverty line. All regional estimates …
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Nepal made significant progress on poverty and shared prosperity over the period 1996-2010, despite low domestic growth …. With consistently high rates of vulnerability and exposure to a range of shocks, the risk of falling back into poverty has … poverty assessment is organized as follows: Section 1 describes the data challenges, and highlights the evolution of measures …
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