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Dynamics and Drivers of Consumption and Multidimensional Poverty : Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Brück, Tilman - 2013

This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly...

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Poverty Imputation in Contexts Without Consumption Data : A Revisit with Further Refinements

Dang, Hai-Anh; Kilic, Talip; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2023

utility expenditures to a basic imputation model with household-level demographic and employment variables provides accurate …

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Gone with the Storm : Rainfall Shocks and Household Well-Being in Guatemala

Baez, Javier - 2015

This paper investigates the causal consequences of Tropical Storm Agatha (2010) – the strongest tropical storm ever to strike Guatemala since rainfall records have been kept – on household welfare. The analysis reveals substantial negative effects, particularly among urban households. Per...

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment

Haan, Peter - 2009

study the nature of the relationship between poor health and non-employment on a sample of German men aged 30-59. We propose … to model poor health and non-employment as interrelated risks determined within a dynamic structure conditional on a set … persistence in the dynamics of poor health and non-employment …

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Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?

Bandiera, Oriana - 2014

The world's poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates that sizable transfers of assets and skills enable the poorest women to shift out of...

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Poverty and Survival

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010

more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …

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Access to Banking Services and Poverty Reduction : A State-Wise Assessment in India

Bhandari, Amit K. - 2013

poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal …

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Welfare Dynamics in India Over a Quarter Century : Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility During 1987-2012

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020

We analyze the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning 1987/88–2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of the consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these...

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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments : Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform

Edmonds, Eric V. - 2007

decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in child labor. However, communities that relied heavily on employment in … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …

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Food for Fuel : The Effect of the US Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant - 2019

RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … are greater among urban households. However, more poor people in India live in villages, so rural poverty impacts are …

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