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Migration and economic mobility in Tanzania : evidence from a tracking survey
Beegle, Kathleen - 2008
"This study explores the extent to which migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania. Using longitudinal data on individuals, the authors estimate the impact of migration on consumption growth between 1991 and 2004. The analysis addresses concerns about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520961
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Local institutions, poverty and household welfare in Bolivia
Grootaert, Christiaan - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523990
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Household welfare and poverty dynamics in Burkina Faso : empirical evidence from household surveys
Fofack, Hippolyte - 2001
The benefits from growth following devaluation of the CFA franc in Burkina Faso in 1994 were undermined by increasing income inequality. Factors that fed that growth in income inequality: disparities in wages and in educational attainment and unequal access to productive assets
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524043
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El Niño or el peso? : crisis, poverty and income distribution in the Philippines
Datt, Gaurav - 2000
In terms of its impact on poverty, the recent economic crisis in the Philippines was more of an El Niño phenomenon than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524258
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Social capital, household welfare and poverty in Indonesia
Grootaert, Christiaan - 1999
It pays for poor households to participate actively in local associations. At low incomes, the returns to social capital are higher than returns to human capital. At higher incomes, the reverse is true
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524689
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Income inequality, welfare, and poverty : an illustration using Ukrainian data
Kakwani, Nanak - 1995
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Socioeconomic inequalities in child malnutrition in the developing world
Wagstaff, Adam - 2000
Despite the development community's shift in emphasis toward the poor, malnutrition, like other dimensions of poor health, is concentrated among the worst off. Yet targets are still defined in terms of population averages. Consider, then, this information about malnutrition rates among different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524290
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Financial services for the urban poor : South Africa's E Plan
Paulson, Jo Ann - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524924
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On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world
Ravallion, Martin - 2005
"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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522620
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Estimating individual vulnerability to poverty with pseudo-panel data
Bourguignon, François - 2004
larger effort in the vice presidency to improve measurement of vulnerability to poverty"--World Bank web site … earning dynamics and related issues such as the propensity of earners to fall into poverty or vulnerability to poverty because … other measures of interest, such as an individual's vulnerability to poverty. The results show that model parameters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522959