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Impact of Social Fund on the Welfare of Rural Households : Evidence from the Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund
Parajuli, Dilip; Acharya, Gayatri; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2012
The Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund is a World Bank supported community-driven development program. Its objective is to …
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Work-Related Migration and Poverty Reduction in Nepal
Lokshin, Michael; Bontch-Osmolovski, Mikhail; … - 2012
poverty in Nepal of local and international migration for work. They apply an instrumental variable approach to deal with … Nepal occurring between 1995 and 2004 can be attributed to increased levels of work-related migration and remittances sent … reduction in Nepal should consider aspects of the dynamics of domestic and international migration. …
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Comparing the Impact of Food and Energy Price Shocks on Consumers : A Social Accounting Matrix Analysis for Ghana
Parra, Juan Carlos; Wodon, Quentin - 2012
Many countries have been affected by food and oil price shocks. Rising energy costs have manifested themselves through higher prices of gas at the pump and through price increases for many other goods such as kerosene and transport. But in some countries there has also been some degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552531
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Program Evaluation and Spillover Effects
Angelucci, M.; Di Maro, Vincenzo - 2015
This paper is a practical guide for researchers and practitioners who want to understand spillover effects in program evaluation. The paper defines spillover effects and discusses why it is important to measure them. It explains how to design a field experiment to measure the average effects of...
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Are We Confusing Poverty with Preferences?
van den Boom, Bart; Halsema, Alex; Molini, Vasco - 2015
Modifying the national poverty line to the context of observed consumption patterns of the poor is becoming popular. A context-specific poverty line would be more consistent with preferences. This paper provides theoretical and empirical evidence that the contrary holds and that the national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564545
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Social and Economic Impacts of Rural Road Improvements in the State of Tocantins, Brazil
Iimi, Atsushi; Lancelot, Eric R.; Manelici, Isabela - 2015
The aim of this paper is to provide feedback on the question of socioeconomic benefits from rural road development and the impact of transport infrastructure on the poor, particularly the poorest and the bottom 20 percent of the population. This paper relies on impact evaluation methodologies,...
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Global Poverty Goals and Prices
Jolliffe, Dean Mitchell; Prydz, Espen Beer - 2015
With the recent release of the 2011 purchasing power parity (PPP) data from the International Comparison Program (ICP), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The previous round of PPP data from 2005 led to a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564664
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Social Transfers, Labor Supply and Poverty Reduction : The Case of Albania
Dabalen, Andrew; Kilic, Talip; Wane, Waly - 2012
In 1993, in response to persistent unemployment, and rising poverty and social unrest, the government of Albania introduced an anti-poverty program, namely Ndihma Ekonomike; in 1995 it was extended to all poor households. This paper estimates the separate effects of participation in this income...
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The Developing World is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty
Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552245
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Are There Lessons for Africa from China's Success Against Poverty?
Ravallion, Martin - 2012
At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty persisted due to failed and unpopular policies. While...
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