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program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty …
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program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884251
Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the … evidence building by examining the impact of a large-scale workfare program in Bangladesh, the Employment Generation Program …
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This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained … from standard analysis. Second, existing studies examine migration's impact on the poverty of the entire sample. However …
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This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of … poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion …, and the influence of changing levels of substitutability between achievements on the poverty dimensions is examined. It …
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demonstrating that survey-to-survey imputation can fill consumption data gaps and provide low-cost and reliable poverty estimates …; the choice of base surveys for estimating the imputation model; different poverty lines; and alternative (quarterly or …
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included, inconsistencies between different data sources could interfere with comparable poverty estimates. We test the … performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Colombia … that we can reasonably impute poverty rates using an older household income survey and a more recent ProGres dataset for …
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This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …
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Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of … proposed method offers poverty estimates based on administrative data that are mostly statistically insignificantly different …
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Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further … highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad overview of the pros and cons of poverty … review two common uses of poverty imputation methods that aim at tracking poverty over time and estimating poverty dynamics …
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