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household income and the presence of nutrition interventions in the community. The results show that better nutrition is …
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household's ability to save on a regular basis. Due to limited outreach of institutional housing finance, most slum dwellers … rely solely on household savings for purchasing a house. These findings underscore the urgent need to improve savings …
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of high economic growth suggests that the nutritional improvements are due to higher household incomes. The authors … investigate whether this causal hypothesis is true by estimating the impact of household income growth on children's nutritional … that growth in household expenditures accounts for only a small proportion of the improvements in children's nutritional …
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The collective approach to household behavior relaxes the restrictive features of the unitary model by specifying … household welfare as a weighted combination of the individuals' utilities. But the weights are assumed fixed or exogenous to the … and simultaneously estimated with the household outcomes. The authors present Nepalese evidence that suggests that a woman …
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This paper examines the impact of the recent banking crises in Europe and Central Asia with an emphasis on household … and finds that at the macro level a flexible monetary regime is associated with fewer cutbacks in household consumption … also mitigates the impact of income shocks on household consumption, with the former especially important in middle …
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Workfare programs are one of the most popular social protection and employment policy instruments in the developing world. They evoke the promise of efficient targeting, as well as immediate and lasting impacts on participants’ employment, earnings, skills and behaviors. This paper evaluates...
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Key economic variables in Cote d'Ivoire vary widely from their long-run trends, moving in multi-year cyclical patterns. Cocoa prices move with cycles in growth rates, capital stock, real exchange rates, terms of trade, cocoa production, and coffee production and output. These patterns have...
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Existing evidence forms a body of "conventional wisdom" on the redistributive impact of fiscal policies that has been recently questioned by more disaggregated analyses. This paper proposes an additional extension to the traditional benefit incidence analysis to explore further the extent to...
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Regression discontinuity designs applied to a set of household surveys from the 1980-90s allow to examine whether Cote … d'Ivoire's aggregate wealth was translated at the borders of neighboring countries. At the border of Ghana and at the …
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This paper investigates the impact of political instability and civil conflict on firms. It studies the unrest in Cote d'Ivoire that began in 2000, using a census of all registered firms for the years 1998-2003. The analysis uses structural estimates of the production function and exploits...
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