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This paper sets out to investigate the wellbeing of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It undertakes … spatial and temporal comparisons of women's wellbeing using data from the Demographic and Health Survey and the Multiple …
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poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To …
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wellbeing', and 'gender equality' by 2030. It is thus important to investigate son preference to inform policy-makers of the …
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recognize the importance of informal institutions, such as trust, associations and inclusion, and their impact on well-being … Studies is a large and innovative database of social development indicators to overcome such data constraints. They are based …
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School-feeding is an important intervention to attract children to school and augment their learning. The benefits of school-feeding cover several domains. Key to the overall assessment of these benefits is understanding how different implementation models compare to each other and to other...
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The extractives industries are highly controversial but remain vitally important in much of the developing world. This paper considers their role in reducing energy poverty and discusses scenarios for the future of the global markets for oil, gas, and metals (emphasizing the increasing...
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The focus of this study is rent in the diamond industry. Based on extensive datasets and a discussion of all relevant costs, we present resource rent statistics from the diamond industry in key producer countries in emerging economies such as Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo,...
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production on general well-being. The aim of this paper is to review and scope how aid effectiveness might be assessed in this …
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This paper performs a multidimensional first order dominance (FOD) analysis of child wellbeing in the Democratic … Republic of Congo (DRC). This methodology allows the ordinal ranking of the 11 provinces of the DRC in terms of their wellbeing … the deprivation indicators or to rely on the signs of other cross-derivatives for comparison. I execute a bootstrap linear …
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We explore a novel first order dominance (FOD) approach to poverty mapping and compare its properties to small area estimation. The FOD approach uses census data directly; is straightforward to implement; is multidimensional allowing for a broad conception of welfare; and accounts rigorously for...
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