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We broadly review the challenges encountered and choices made in the national assessments of consumption poverty using … estimates produce qualitatively very similar results. We conclude that the principal conclusions of the poverty assessments are …
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the analysis of poverty in developing countries. Drawing on detailed evidence from Mozambique, we argue that different … research approaches do not merely see the same poverty from different angles; rather, they tend to conceptualize poverty … character of poverty; its generative mechanisms; and epistemological priorities. The quantitative analysis provides an …
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Informal self-employed traders in developing countries are vulnerable to shocks as they often lack access to social insurance or formal finance. This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on these urban traders in the capital of Mozambique, Maputo. Drawing on longitudinal phone...
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In the widely used class of multidimensional poverty measures introduced by Alkire and Foster (2011), dimension … poverty decomposition based only on the unique properties of each identification function; and metrics of dimensional power … close replica of the international MPI (multidimensional poverty index). …
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counting-type multidimensional poverty measures, I draw on the properties of positive Boolean threshold functions to prove that … the space of feasible poverty definitions is finite and can be partitioned into at most (D2 +D)/2 parts, where D is the … bounding approach, which weights each dimension equally; and (ii) stochastic search, where coverage of the space of poverty …
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. Nonetheless, poverty rates remain high and labour market activity is dominated by smallholder farming. We use recent household …
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The primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the population. However, there is growing unease that blindly replicating these policies might inflict irreparable damage to poor households and foment social unrest in...
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