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is not sufficient to close the infrastructure gap. Disruptions and irregular service have adverse effects on household …
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The Russian Federation offers the unique example of a leading centrally planned economy swiftly transforming itself into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring...
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This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the … nationally representative longitudinal household survey on living standards with information from Nigerian mobile operators on … coverage had large and positive impacts on household consumption levels which increased over time, although at a decreasing …
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As many as 50 million people in Pakistan may still live without connection to the electric grid. Pakistan also has some of the world's worst power outages. Using data from a nationally representative two-period panel survey, this paper presents the first empirical evidence on the cost of...
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household welfare. This study assesses the short-term impact of export bans on prices and welfare of households in Malawi …, the welfare analysis shows that the welfare gains and poverty reduction effects are small in magnitude and likely to be …
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inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct … using household survey data. Poorer households are more likely to be affected by floods; directly affected households are …
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households living in extreme poverty-Burkina Faso, Senegal, and Rwanda. Consistent with the theoretical model, the results … indicate very low household willingness-to-pay for electricity access, and that willingness-to-pay diminishes as households …-grid solar technologies in programs to provide household electricity to the poor in rural areas …
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Measuring and comparing the levels of household welfare and poverty in a country require cost-of-living differences … spatial price adjustment in poverty analysis in low- and middle-income countries …
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variables, including access to drinking and irrigation water supplies and social vulnerability (that is, poverty), are overlaid …
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information collected through a household survey. It is the first detailed analysis of the combined effects of increasing block … large. The average household receives a subsidy of US …
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