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Roles of social conformity in deviance in poverty : a study on working poverty and educational investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - 2013
In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793157
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Migration and climate change in rural Africa
Cattaneo, Cristina; Massetti, Emanuele - 2015
We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to future climate change....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483571
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What stayers do? : capital endowments and on-farm transitions in Rural China
Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi; Luo, Mingzhong - 2018
agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926385
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Cash transfer programs and household labor supply
Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Sorrenti, … - 2020
Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210914
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The effect of international sanctions on the size of the middle class in Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibi, Nader - 2024
This study examines the impact of international economic sanctions, imposed on Iran due to its nuclear program, on the development of the middle class. Specifically, it investigates how the middle class in Iran would have developed in the absence of these sanctions post-2012. To address this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014563835
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Economic sanctions and agricultural trade
Larch, Mario; Luckstead, Jeff; Yotov, Yoto - 2021
Combining two new datasets on sanctions and agricultural trade and implementing step-by-step the latest developments in the empirical structural gravity literature, we investigate the effects of sanctions on international trade of agricultural products. We find that trade sanctions have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668821
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Food for fuel : the effect of U.S. energy policy on Indian poverty
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2012
a sharp increase in world poverty. -- clean energy ; food prices ; household welfare ; renewable fuel standards … ; poverty …
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Wheels of change : transforming girls' lives with bicycles
Fiala, Nathan; Garcia-Hernandez, Ana; Narula, Kritika; … - 2022
the distance to school, their safety when commuting to school, lack of agency, and deep-rooted cultural norms. In Zambia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013288045
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Nonparametric welfare analysis for discrete choice : levels and differences of individual and social welfare
Capéau, Bart; De Sadeleer, Liebrecht; Maes, Sebastiaan; … - 2021
Empirical welfare analyses often impose stringent parametric assumptions on individuals' preferences and neglect unobserved preference heterogeneity. In this paper, we develop a framework to conduct individual and social welfare analysis for discrete choice that does not suffer from these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012513281
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Rural transformation, inequality, and the origins of microfinance
Süße, Marvin; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2019
What determines the development of rural financial markets? Starting from a simple theoretical framework, we derive the factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for these determinants using the expansion of credit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138789