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Migration for Development: From Challenges to Opportunities
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and even return home at some time with better human...
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The Economic and Social Impact of the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) on Migrant Remittances: An Overview of Tunisia and Morocco
Habib, Hajer - 2020
The spread of the novel coronavirus and 'stay at home' measures in response to this global health crisis is profoundly changing societies and economies around the world. The objective of this work is to analyze the economic impact of Covid-19 by focusing on their implications on migrant...
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Remittances and Vaccine Hesitancy in the Punjab Province of Pakistan
Abbas, Faisal; Bang, James T.; Mitra, Aniruddha - 2023
Pakistan is one of only three countries that have failed to stop the transmission of poliovirus and experienced a surge of polio paralysis in 2019. Meanwhile, misconceptions persist about the safety and efficacy of vaccines in Pakistan and elsewhere. Our study investigates the effect of...
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To Impute or Not to Impute? A Review of Alternative Poverty Estimation Methods in the Context of Unavailable Consumption Data
Dang, Hai-Anh H. - 2018
There is an increasingly stronger demand for more frequent and accurate poverty estimates, despite the oftentimes unavailable household consumption data. We offer a review of alternative imputation methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates in such contexts. These range from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011818042
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Welfare Dynamics in India over a Quarter Century: Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility during 1987-2012
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter F. - 2020
out of different classes of the consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210232
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Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations: A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad
Beltramo, Theresa; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Sarr, Ibrahima; … - 2020
Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad, by combining United Nations High Commissioner for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213181
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Evolution of Inequality in Nigeria: A Tale of Falling Inequality, Rising Poverty and Regional Heterogeneity
Odozi, John; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2022
Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … (GHS) and carefully measuring inequality using consumption expenditure, our results suggest that inequality has decreased … and median consumption expenditure increased. At the same time, poverty incidence and severity increased precipitously …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411419
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Measuring Poverty Dynamics with Synthetic Panels Based on Repeated Cross-Sections
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter F. - 2022
-from several countries, spanning different income levels and geographical regions-perform well under various deviations from model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470719
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Poverty Imputation in Contexts without Consumption Data: A Revisit with Further Refinements
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Kilic, Talip; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2023
Household consumption data are often unavailable, not fully collected, or incomparable over time in poorer countries. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine...
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Using Survey-to-Survey Imputation to Fill Poverty Data Gaps at a Low Cost: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment
Dang, Hai-Anh; Kilic, Talip; Hlasny, Vladimir; … - 2024
Survey data on household consumption are often unavailable or incomparable over time in many low- and middle-income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466961