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Analysis of household demand patterns using household data: Re-thinking the use of unit values or community prices
Nsabimana, Aimable - 2024
Analysis of household food consumption patterns and welfare requires knowledge of household demand responses to changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014548601
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Gender bias and the intrahousehold distribution of resources: Evidence from African nuclear households in South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence; Ntuli, Miracle - 2017
This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i.e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa. We use the 2010/11 South African Income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688566
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Do people in income poverty use their income efficiently? A subjective well-being approach
Rojas, Mariano - 2012
A subjective well-being approach is followed to assess the magnitude of inefficiency in the use of income. The information comes from a Mexican survey and an X-inefficiency technique is used. The paper shows that there exists substantial inefficiency in the use of income at all income levels,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319920
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Climate variability and household welfare in northern Ghana
Nkegbe, Paul Kwame; Kuunibe, Naasegnibe - 2014
investigates the impact of climate variability on household welfare in the area using a three-period panel data from the Ghana … temperatures found to be significant drivers of improved welfare. The study thus concludes that climate variability negatively … impacts household welfare, agricultural income, and farm revenue, and recommends inter alia households' diversification of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343193
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Marital trajectories and women's wellbeing in Senegal
Lambert, Sylvie; Van de Walle, Dominique; Villar, Paola - 2017
Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with measures of voice, resource constraints, and wellbeing as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943727
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Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in Ghana: A micro-level analysis
Danquah, Michael; Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Ohemeng, Williams; … - 2020
The financial sector in rural areas, where most of the poor people in sub-Saharan Africa are found, has transformed massively in recent times, notably through the increased penetration of several types of rural financial intermediaries in addition to rural and community banks and microfinance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423989
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Agricultural risks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and farm household welfare and diversification strategies in Africa
Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Karakara, Alhassan Abdul-Wakeel; … - 2022
of context as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on household welfare, with a focus on farm households relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322617
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Multidimensional poverty in Nigeria: First order dominance approach
Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Olaniyan, Olanrewaju; … - 2014
developed by Arndt et al. (2012). It examines five dimensions of deprivation: education, water, sanitation, shelter, and energy … and 2008 and only one of the indicators (sanitation) recorded a substantial positive change. The spatial first order …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494240
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Redistribution without structural change in Ecuador: Rising and falling income inequality in the 1990s and 2000s
Ponce, Juan; Vos, Rob - 2012
This study examines the rise and fall in income inequality in Ecuador over the past two decades. Falling income equality during the 2000s partly coincides with the rise to power of a new leftist government, but the trend was already set early in the decade. The recent trend is mainly associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319882
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Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2019
labour markets. Moreover, the paper highlights the knowledge gaps with regard to the longer-term and gender-specific welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146572