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On the Contribution of Demographic Change to Aggregate Poverty Measures for the Developing World
Ravallion, Martin - 2012
Recent literature and new data help determine plausible bounds to some key demographic differences between the poor and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the...
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Population, Poverty, and Climate Change
Das Gupta, Monica - 2014
The literature is reviewed on the relationships between population, poverty, and climate change. While developed countries are largely responsible for global warming, the brunt of the fallout will be borne by the developing world, in lower agricultural output, poorer health, and more frequent...
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Health Reform, Population Policy and Child Nutritional Status in China
Bredenkamp, Caryn - 2012
This paper examines the determinants of child nutritional status in seven provinces of China during the 1990s, focusing specifically on the role of two areas of public policy, namely health system reforms and the one child policy. The empirical relationship between income and nutritional status,...
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Estimating the Size of External Effects of Energy Subsidies in Transport and Agriculture
Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko; Vagliasindi, Maria - 2015
It is widely accepted that the costs of underpricing energy are large, whether in advanced or developing countries. This paper explores how large these costs can be by focussing on the size of the external effects that energy subsidies in particular generate in two important sectors—transport...
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On Gender and Growth : The Role of Intergenerational Health Externalities and Women???s Occupational Constraints
Ag??nor, Pierre-Richard; Canuto, Otaviano; da Silva, … - 2012
This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health …
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Demand Side Instruments to Reduce Road Transportation Externalities in the Greater Cairo Metropolitan Area
Parry, Ian W.H.; Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2012
-mile tolls could target congestion and accident externalities more efficiently than fuel taxes, although they are not practical … externalities (versus $0.22 without fuel taxes) would be most efficient. Current public bus and rail subsidies are relatively close … to efficient levels in the absence of such policies; however, if automobile and microbus externalities were fully …
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Marketing Externalities and Market Development
Emran, M. Shahe - Shilpi. Forhad - 2013
The authors use survey data from Bangladesh to present empirical evidence on externalities at household level sales …
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The Demographic Benefit of International Migration : Hypothesis and Application to Middle Eastern and North African Contexts
Fargues, Philippe - 2012
The view that international migration has no impact on the size of world population is a sensible one. But the author argues, migration from developing to more industrial countries during the past decades may have resulted in a smaller world population than the one which would have been attained...
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Demographic and Spatial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes within the Kinshasa Urban Landscape
Batana, Yele Maweki; Jarotschkin, Alexandra; Konou, Akakpo - 2021
This paper examines the labor market and jobs in urban Kinshasa, by drawing on a recently collected household survey and other data sets. It particularly focuses on labor supply and employment patterns, job characteristics, and their spatial nexus. The analysis first shows that female and young...
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Education and Its Poverty-Reducing Effects : The Case of Paraiba, Brazil
Verner, Dorte - 2013
Breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty requires far-reaching actions in the education sector. Widespread poverty affects both students' performance and their availability to attend school. Low-quality education leads to low income, which in turn perpetuates poverty. Furthermore,...
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