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Partnerships for Women's Health - Striving for Best Practice within the UN Global Compact / United Nations University Research Brief 1/2009 (www.unu.edu)
Timmermann, Martina; Kruesmann, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly …? The Women’s Health Initiative, an innovative public private partnership that drew reference from the UN Global Compact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008566435
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On ageing, health and poverty in rural India
Pandey, Manoj K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper, the trend and determinants of health and poverty among the elderly in rural India is analysed. Two …-96 and 2004 while increased proportion of elderly with poor health status is continued. Results suggest that poverty is one … of the key determinants of health among elderly in rural India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113016
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Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia
Attanasio, Orazio; Augsburg, Britta; De Haas, Ralph; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field...
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The distributive consequuences of machismo: A simulation analysis of intrahousehold allocation
Cuesta, Jose - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Empirical evidence questions the unitary allocation model of the household that underpins the standard measurement of monetary poverty and inequality. Intra-household gender discrimination has been widely shown to shape expenditure decisions, nutrition status, and human capital accumulation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836291
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FOOD Insecurity and Stochastic Aspects of Poverty
Anderson, Jock; Roumasset, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
Most works on food security have a macroeconomic orientation, whereas most discussions of famine are rather microeconomic. The intention here is to seek a more unified approach to the economic issues in food insecurity among low-income rural households.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070464
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Managing risks: what Russian households do to smooth consumption?
Notten, Geranda; Neubourg, Chris de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
a shock-response strategy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616965
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Determinants of Poverty in Elderly-Headed Households in the Philippines
Mapa, Dennis S.; Bersales, Lisa Grace S.; Albis, Manuel … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper looks at the impact of population dynamics on poverty in elderly-headed households in the Philippines using data from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) from 2000 to 2006. The population of the elderly, or those 60 years and above, has increased from 3.2 million in 1990...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836753
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The Role of European Welfare States in Explaining Resources Deprivation
Muffels, Ruud; Fouarge, Didier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
In a previous paper in this journal (Headey et al., 2000) a comparison was made between three so-called ‘best cases’ of welfare regime types, the ‘Liberal’ US, ‘the ‘Corporatist’ Germany and the ‘Social-Democratic’ Netherlands. That paper was based on the ten-year datasets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790286
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Longitudinal Poverty and Income Inequality A Comparative Panel Study for The Netherlands, Germany and the UK
Muffels, Ruud; Fouarge, Didier; Dekker, Ronald - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
The increasing availability of longitudinal data on income in Europe greatly facilitates the analysis of income and poverty dynamics. In this paper, the results of longitudinal data analyses on income and poverty in three European welfare states are reported. Using panel data for Germany, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836069
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Poverty and Banking Exclusion in Mexico: How can remittances and technology contribute to improve access?
Ramos-Murillo, Erick; Kronberger, Benedikt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The empowerment of the poor through cell phones is this paper’s central theme. There already exist a number of cases in the world where such empowerment has already occurred in the financial sector through the usage of cell phones: the cases provided throughout the paper are Kenya, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113343