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of context as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on household welfare, with a focus on farm households relative …
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The poverty mapping methodology for estimating welfare rankings from small areas has proven to be useful in guiding …
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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...
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We develop an approach for making welfare comparisons between populations with multidimensional discrete well …
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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 …
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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 based upon the probability of their domination. This...
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At the end of the 1980s, Côte d'Ivoire entered a deep macroeconomic crisis that put an end to the often-praised 'Ivorian miracle'. After the death of the founding father Houphouet- Boigny, unrestrained political competition added to bad economic conditions and led to the nightmare of civil war....
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This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. (2012). It examines five dimensions of deprivation: education, water, sanitation, shelter, and energy-using comparable datasets, the Nigeria Demographic...
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In this paper, we apply the first-order dominance (FOD) approach to assessing multidimensional welfare to analyse … multidimensional poverty in Zambia in 1996, 2006, and 2010. In addition to evaluating welfare across time and space, we extend the … methodology to evaluate welfare by rural agricultural strata and urban housing cost areas. This modification allows a more …
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growth has been accompanied by improvements in multidimensional child welfare using a first-order dominance approach applied … do not indicate broad-based welfare advancement at the national, urban, or rural levels, they do suggest progress within …
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