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.25 poverty line. Also, Thailand, after the economic crisis, with 19% of children underweight, is still above the World Health …In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty … reduction was especially successful. Thailand and Viet Nam are two emerging market economies where poverty rates are now below …
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countries. The number of infant deaths is still quite high, nutrition of children and women continues to be problematic, and …
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This study examines the heterogeneous effect of migration on left-behind children's education and labor in Viet Nam …
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This paper investigates the long-term effect of child poverty on labor market outcomes using a 14-year span of data …
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potentially change the vulnerability to poverty using a panel data set in Indonesia. We focus on the effect of drought and flood …, two of the commonly observed disasters there. Our simulation results indicate that vulnerability to poverty may increase …
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This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty … household may be lifted out of or pushed into poverty. The impacts of trade on growth and longer-term consequences of trade … is significant heterogeneity in the poverty impacts of trade, both across households and countries. This highlights the …
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the concepts and measurements of vulnerability to poverty by classifying them into welfarist, expected poverty, and … axiomatic approaches. We then review a number of empirical studies on vulnerability to poverty in Asia and elsewhere. This … review shows that poverty and vulnerability are related, but different, and that key determinants of vulnerability often …
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results indicate that effective financial inclusion and all four related dimensions lower poverty. Improved access and fintech … financial inclusion in achieving poverty reduction. …
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impact of financial literacy on poverty, which is a downstream welfare indicator. Consequently, we have constructed a … composite financial literacy index. Our results reveal that financial literacy plays an important role in reducing poverty. This …
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Informal eldercare is often supplied by family members, more so in Asia than in the West. Children and their parents as … children of the needy elderly can possibly give to their spouses. A second implication discussed here is that the provision of …
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