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Estimating a Poverty Line for Brazil Based on the 2017/18 Household Budget Survey

Duque, Daniel; Lara Ibarra, Gabriel; Paffhausen, Anna Luisa - 2021

This study applies the cost-of-basic-needs approach to estimate food and total poverty lines for the Brazilian case. Using detailed data on expenditures from a 2017/18 household budget survey and caloric information from the Brazilian Table of Food Composition, calorie intake is assigned to more...

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Azerbaijan???s Household Survey Data : Explaining Why Inequality is So Low

Ersado, Lire - 2012

While the Azerbaijan household income and expenditure survey (HIES) data satisfy most empirical regularities expected in a typical household survey data, the inequality measures based on the data are unusually low. For example, for the latest three years for which we have data (2002 - 2004), the...

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Missing(ness) in Action : Selectivity Bias in GPS-Based Land Area Measurements

Kilic, Talip; Zezza, Alberto; Carletto, Calogero - 2013

Land area is a fundamental component of agricultural statistics, and of analyses undertaken by agricultural economists. While household surveys in developing countries have traditionally relied on farmers' own, potentially error-prone, land area assessments, the availability of affordable and...

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Disquiet on the Weather Front : The Welfare Impacts of Climatic Variability in the Rural Philippines

Safir, Abla; Piza, Sharon Faye; Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2013

Three recent rounds (2003, 2006, and 2009) of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey are matched to rainfall data from 43 rainfall stations in the Philippines to quantify the extent to which unusual weather has any negative effects on the consumption of Filipino households. It is found that...

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Strengthening Economic Rights and Women's Occupational Choice : The Impact of Reforming Ethiopia's Family Law

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Gajigo, Ousman - 2014

This paper evaluates the impact of strengthening legal rights on the types of economic opportunities that are pursued. Ethiopia changed its family law, requiring both spouses' consent in the administration of marital property, removing the ability of a spouse to deny permission for the other to...

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Getting Incentives Right : An Impact Evaluation of District Hospital Capitation Payment in Vietnam

Nguyen, Ha Thi Hong; Bales, Sarah; Wagstaff, Adam - 2014

With the movement toward universal health coverage gaining momentum, the global health research community has made significant efforts to advance knowledge about the impact of various schemes to expand population coverage. The impacts on efficiency, quality, and gaps in service utilization of...

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The Impact of Regional Liberalization and Harmonization in Road Transport Services : A Focus on Zambia and Lessons for Landlocked Ccountries

Raballand, Ga??l; Kunaka, Charles; Giersing, Bo - 2012

important effect on transport costs and tariffs for Zambia's economy. Zambia is a peculiar example in Southern Africa as it … competition between Zambian and other regional, mainly South African, operators and because of South African investments in Zambia …'s trucking industry. As a result, the costs of operators registered in Zambia and South Africa are similar. The study also …

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How Pro-poor and Progressive is Social Spending in Zambia?

Cuesta, Jose; Kabaso, Pamela; Suarez-Becerra, Pablo - 2012

This paper analyzes the distributional effect of public spending in Zambia using the most recent data from the 2010 … education spending in Zambia is neither pro-poor nor progressive, but while this is true for the system as a whole it is not …

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The Relevance of a Rules-Based Maize Marketing Policy : An Experimental Case Study of Zambia

Abbink, Klaus; Jayne, Thomas S.; Moller, Lars C. - 2012

Strategic interaction between public and private actors is increasingly recognized as an important determinant of agricultural market performance in Africa and elsewhere. Trust and consultation tend to positively affect private activity while uncertainty of government behavior impedes it. This...

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Migration from Zambia : Ensuring Temporariness through Cooperation

Amin, Mohammad; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012

The paper analyzes migration from Zambia in order to understand how migration policy can support development in the … least developed countries. Overall emigration from Zambia is not high by regional standards, but the pattern of migration is … skewed toward the skilled and away from the unskilled. A development-friendly approach to migration for Zambia would strive …

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