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The Negotiated Politics of Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa
Hickey, Sam - 2018
Social assistance programmes proliferated and expanded across much of the global South from the mid-1990s. Within Africa there has been enormous variation in this trend: some governments expanded coverage dramatically while others resisted this. The existing literature on social assistance, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925715
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Simulating policy options for universal child allowances in Ghana
Evans, Martin - 2018
middle income countries that examined optimal approaches to reduce child poverty using universal categorical child allowances … margins of the poverty line were found to be small and robustness and sensitivity tests were done to accompany simulation …. Simulations found that individual level allowances reduce poverty more than household level allowances. Such individual level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944111
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Africa's lockdown dilemma: High poverty and low trust
Egger, Eva-Maria; Jones, Sam; Justino, Patricia; … - 2020
The primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the population. However, there is growing unease that blindly replicating these policies might inflict irreparable damage to poor households and foment social unrest in...
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Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory
Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - 2012
This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319772
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Social policies or private solidarity? The equalizing role of migration and remittances in El Salvador
Acevedo, Carlos; Cabrera, Maynor - 2012
This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319809
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Aid and poverty: Why does aid not address poverty (much)?
Shepherd, Andrew; Bishop, Sylvia - 2013
preparation if poverty is to be taken more seriously by donors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319829
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Conflicting measures of poverty and inadequate saving by the poor: The role of status-driven utility function
Marjit, Sugata - 2012
nutrition-based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319857
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Variable populations and the measurement of poverty and inequality: A selective overview
Subramanian, S. - 2012
involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of … differing size. The paper begins with certain problems attending the measurement of poverty when the overall population size is … Parfit's quest for a satisfactory theory of wellbeing and the economist's quest for a satisfactory measure of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319897
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Aid, growth, and jobs
Fields, Gary - 2012
poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319934
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The impacts of the food, fuel and financial crises on households in Nigeria: A retrospective approach for research enquiry
Chiripanhura, Blessing M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2013
engaging children in child labour, can lock households in a low-income equilibrium or poverty trap. Provided that covariate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319941