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"This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the … into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We test the model using data from the Uganda National Household Survey …
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This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the … into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We test the model using data from the Uganda National Household Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465255
poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) - a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …
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Do information frictions limit the benefits of financial inclusion drives for the rural poor? We evaluate an experimental intervention among recently banked poor Indian women receiving government cash transfers via direct deposit. Treated women were provided automated voice calls confirming...
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, the poverty trap, the size of the cohort at risk, and migrant stock dynamics. It then projects the life cycle up to 2024 …
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Within-country ethnic diversity in high-wage immigrant nations is driven by long distance migration. This paper documents the migration-diversity connection for the first global century before 1914 and the second global century after 1950. It distinguishes between ethnic diversity among the...
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globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …
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Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability of internal or international migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), a time when the US maintained an open border to European immigrants. We do so by exploiting variation in parental wealth...
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-receiving states and metropolitan areas. Then I quantify the consequences of these wage effects on the poverty rates of native families … "poor" families among U.S.-born individuals. I consider the decade 2000-2009 during which poverty rates increased … no effect of immigration on native poverty at the national level. At the local level, only considering the most extreme …
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, talent or motivation. The other, the poverty traps view, differences in opportunities which stem from access to wealth. To … who begin in extreme poverty. The setting is rural Bangladesh and the asset is cows. The data supports the poverty traps … (from casual labor in agriculture or domestic services to running small livestock businesses) and grow out of poverty. The …
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