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Adaptive safety nets for rural Africa : drought-sensitive targeting with sparse data

Baez, Javier E.; Kshirsagar, Varun; Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2019

This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child-, mother-, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) to design a prototype drought-contingent targeting framework that...

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Is Poverty in Africa Mostly Chronic Or Transient? Evidence from Synthetic Panel Data

Dang, Hai-Anh H. - 2017

countries as a whole have had pro-poor growth. One-third of the poor population escaped poverty during the studied period, which … is larger than the proportion of the population that fell into poverty in the same period. The region also saw a 9 … percent reduction in poverty and a 28 percent increase in the size of the middle class. However, chronic poverty remains high …

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