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This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … distributional characteristics. Using years of life as a welfare metric yields a single parameter that captures the underlying trade …-off between lives and livelihoods: how many PYs have the same welfare cost as one LY. Taking an agnostic view of this parameter …
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What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...
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are effective in mitigating the loss of welfare induced by forced displacement. This paper examines whether Iraq's Public …
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Many economists believe that the returns to migration are high. However, credible experimental estimates of the benefits of migration are rare, particularly for low-skilled international migrants and their families. This paper studies a natural experiment in Bangladesh, where low-skilled male...
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, simulations suggest that an optimal policy path to balance consumer and producer welfare and meet the higher societal objective of …
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mobilization for planting and harvest, thereby reducing rice area planted as well as rice yields. Household welfare, measured by …
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fiscal system is improving the welfare of the population: only 33.2 percent of the population has become poorer due to the …
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Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as its main measure of disaster severity. Using a new,...
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implications for households' welfare. The analysis finds important gains in welfare among current users of telecom services, with …
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to policy makers and academics alike. This paper analyzes the long-term effects on the welfare of the original … look into the effects on schooling and health, the analysis focuses on a utilitarian definition of welfare and employs two …
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