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Vulnerability to Poverty: Tajikistan During and After the Global Financial Crisis
Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John; … - 2016
We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524980
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Does Workfare Work Well? The Case of the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest in Bangladesh
Cho, Yoon Y.; Ruthbah, Ummul - 2018
Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873477
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Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India
Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002
This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277292
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Ethnic conflict and economic disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2005
of poverty as captured by the headcount ratio. We examine the roles played by the stock of attributes and by the impact … lower expenditures and higher poverty incidence than Albanians. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277303
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Targeting Poverty under Complementarities: Evidence from Indonesia's Unified Targeting System
Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher; Rammohan, Anu - 2017
Combining nationally representative administrative and survey data with official proxy means testing models and coefficients, we evaluate Indonesia's three largest social programs. The setting for our evaluation is the launch of Indonesia's Unified Targeting system, an innovation developed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744680
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Does Information Empower the Poor? Evidence from Indonesia's Social Security Card
Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher; Rammohan, Anu - 2017
to further alleviate poverty and as a complement to the Social Protection Card (KPS). Drawing upon administrative data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786987
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Household survey data for research on well-being and behavior in Central Asia
Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir; Kroeger, Antje; … - 2012
This paper summarizes the micro - level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household - level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291424
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Literacy and Information
Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher; Rammohan, Anu - 2021
Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy's role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household rice receipts by 30 percentage points. Second, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597504
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Household Survey Data for Research on Well-Being and Behavior in Central Asia
Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir; Kroeger, Antje; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper summarizes the micro‐level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household‐level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan ‐...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271985
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Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India
Sen, Kunal; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822178