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significantly reduce poverty and inequality in settings in which no means-tested old-age pensions exist (such as Ghana and Tanzania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806493
- better cushions the poverty effects of income shocks in a developing economy. We compare the effectiveness of the three … benefit schemes on poverty first conceptually and then by considering two different crisis scenarios, the COVID-19 pandemic … the proxy-means-tested benefits are the most effective in reducing the poverty gap index, a simple categorical benefit is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336040
the effects of four UBI schemes on poverty and inequality measures during normal times and times of crisis in Uganda and … benefit leads to higher poverty and inequality compared to existing benefits. By contrast, in Uganda, a country with only one … notable social protection programme, all UBI scenarios reduce poverty and inequality. Differences between welfare estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014519337
significantly reduce poverty and inequality in settings in which no means-tested old-age pensions exist (such as Ghana and Tanzania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943830
the effects of four UBI schemes on poverty and inequality measures during normal times and times of crisis in Uganda and … benefit leads to higher poverty and inequality compared to existing benefits. By contrast, in Uganda, a country with only one … notable social protection programme, all UBI scenarios reduce poverty and inequality. Differences between welfare estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014548569
- better cushions the poverty effects of income shocks in a developing economy. We compare the effectiveness of the three … benefit schemes on poverty first conceptually and then by considering two different crisis scenarios, the COVID-19 pandemic … the proxy-means-tested benefits are the most effective in reducing the poverty gap index, a simple categorical benefit is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477524
financial inclusion would be important in the quest to reduce the incidence of poverty and vulnerability as well as inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650895
poverty reduction, in Ghana. By accounting for the potential endogeneity of access to financial services, we show that rural … hunger or extreme poverty, the poor must be allowed to obtain meaningful access to financial services through the design of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161597
poverty reduction, in Ghana. By accounting for the potential endogeneity of access to financial services, we show that rural … hunger or extreme poverty, the poor must be allowed to obtain meaningful access to financial services through the design of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423989
Using household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning techniques to examine the effect of gender wage differences within households on women's empowerment and welfare in Ghana. The structural parameters of the post-double selection...
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