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Income diversification and working children

Vimefall, Elin - 2015

During recent years (2004-2008) the proportion of working children in sub-Saharan Africa has increased (Diallo et al. 2010). At the same time, there has been a shift in the patterns of livelihoods, whereby households rely more on sources of income from outside their own farms. When the adult in...

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A dynamical systems approach to modeling human development

Ranganathan, Shyam; Swain, Ranjula Bali; Sumpter, David … - 2014

A key aim of economics is to set goals and investigate the relationship between various socio-economic indicators. By fitting time series data using a Bayesian dynamical systems approach we identify non-linear interactions between GDP, child mortality, fertility rate and female education. We...

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The 2030 sustainable development goals and measuring gender inequality: A technical articulation for Asia-Pacific

Aggarwal, Bhavya; Chakraborty, Lekha S. - 2016

Against the backdrop of the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, this paper analyzes the measurement issues in gender-based indices constructed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and suggests alternatives for choice of variables, functional form, and weights. While the...

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Impact of Special Economic Zones on Employment, Poverty and Human Development

Aggarwal, Aradhna - 2007

This study aims at examining the impact of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) on human development and poverty reduction in India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human capital development), and technology and knowledge...

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Land, poverty and human development in Kenya

wa Githinji, Mwangi - 2011

The question of poverty has become central to the work of development economists in the last decade and a half. The 2000 World Development Report was entitled Attacking Poverty and the UN held a series of World Conferences in the 1990s, all of which addressed in some form or fashion the problem...

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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - 2012

individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily … often exceed famine effects by a factor three. …

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How responsive is body weight to transitory income changes? Evidence from rural Tanzania

Bengtsson, Niklas - 2007

We use time-series of rainfall along with individual fixed effects to estimate the response of body weight to transitory changes in house-hold income and expenditure. Our data consist of a longitudinal sample of subsistence farmers in rural Tazania, representing one of the poorest populations in...

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Violent conflict and the child quantity-quality tradeoff

Nepal, Apsara Karki; Halla, Martin; Stillman, Steven - 2018

We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent negative consequences for the quality of the current and previous cohorts. Our empirical evidence is based on Nepal, which experienced a ten year long civil conflict of varying...

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On altruism and remittances

Antoniades, Alexis; Seshan, Ganesh; Weber, Roberto; … - 2013

We provide a direct test of the impact of altruism on remittances. From a sample of 105 male migrant workers from Kerala, India working in Qatar, we elicit the propensity to share with others from their responses in a dictator game, and use it as a proxy for altruism. When the entire sample is...

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Inequality, good governance and endemic corruption

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017

Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? We examine a stylized poor state with weak institutions in which a "culture of evasion" damages state authority. Many evade tax payments, limiting the state's economic development...

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