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Macro- and micro-economic evidence suggests a positive role of remittances in preparing households against natural disasters and in coping with the loss afterwards. Analysis of cross-country macroeconomic data shows that remittances increase in the aftermath of natural disasters in countries...
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While the 2008 financial crisis is global in nature, it is likely to have heterogeneous welfare impacts within the developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts for some of those affected, notably through the...
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that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …
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Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household …
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The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …
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contrast, there is little observed relationship between mental health and poverty or education, common measures of socio … impact on mental health than overall levels of poverty. This may have important implications for social protection policy …
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The small-area estimation technique developed for producing poverty maps has been applied in a large number of …-area estimation methodology could significantly over-state the precision of local-level estimates of poverty, if underlying … conditions that have been argued to be essential for the method, confidence intervals for the poverty estimates also appear to be …
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question by using new data on such variables as the skill composition of migrants, poverty, and interest and exchange rates to … countries which export a larger proportion of low-skilled migrants. It also finds that the level of poverty in a labor …
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Who benefits from public spending? Who bears the burden of taxation? How desirable is the distribution of net benefits from the operation of a tax-benefit system? This paper surveys basic concepts, methods, and modeling approaches commonly used to address these issues in the context of fiscal...
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poverty will certainly be very diverse, but the average impact on poverty depends upon the balance between these two effects …-income countries show that the short-run impacts of higher staple food prices on poverty differ considerably by commodity and by … country, but, that poverty increases are much more frequent, and larger, than poverty reductions. The recent large increases …
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