While self-assessments of welfare have become popular for measuring poverty and estimating welfare effects, the methods … considerable doubt on the meaning of widely-used summary measures such as subjective poverty rates. Nonetheless, under the … poverty and welfare. …

not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to … diversification could thus yield significant returns in terms of declining poverty and increased income mobility. The evidence from …

, the unorganized sector is large, accounting for more than 99 percent of establishments and 80 percent of employment in … manufacturing. Second, the unorganized sector is stubbornly persistent -- it accounted for 81 percent of manufacturing employment in … states show limited change in unorganized sector employment shares. Fourth, the degree to which localized unorganized …

higher household consumption, lower rural poverty, as well as upward mobility, particularly for rural and poorly educated … employment in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially in lower-income countries. Household enterprises tend to operate with limited … interest or support from governments. This is the case in Mozambique, where neither the poverty reduction strategy nor small …

This paper analyzes the impact of the 2012 crisis in Mali on internally displaced people, refugees and returnees. It … time its impact has diminished. By February 2015, most eligible children were going to school and employment levels and …

Exclusionary policies, such as limits on refugees' movement and the right to work, are often justified as reasons to … minimize economic and social tensions with host communities. While these policies have a negative effect on refugees' economic … of refugees and finds little evidence that large refugee arrivals have a negative effect on average attitudes or economic …

investigate the effects of hosting refugees in camps on the occurrence of protests and social conflicts, by using geo …

This paper examines the effects of a government regularization program offered to half a million Venezuelan refugees in … Colombia. For this purpose, 2,232 surveys of refugee families were collected and used to compare refugees who arrived in … consumption (60 percent), income (31 percent), physical and mental health (1.8 sd), registration rates in the system that assesses …

recovery benefits refugees relatively more in terms of consumption and income, but the impact on social cohesion measures is …Using representative survey data including Iranians and Afghan refugees in Iran in 2011-2019, this paper explores the … unequal impact of macroeconomic fluctuations due to Iran's nuclear dispute on Afghan refugees and host communities. The paper …

The paper examines the patterns of economic integration of refugees in Switzerland, a country with a long tradition of … hosting refugees, a top-receiving host in Europe, and a prominent example of a multicultural society. It relies on a unique … longitudinal dataset consisting of administrative records and social security data for the universe of refugees in Switzerland over …