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Subjective income expectations and risks in rural India
Kumar, Alok - 2017
This paper analyses the pattern and determinants of income risk and expectation in rural India. It uses unique primary …
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The distributional impact of structural transformation in rural India : model-based simulation and case-study evidence
Elbers, Chris; Lanjouw, Peter - 2019
entitled How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics, and point to two distinct, and staggered, drivers of … broadly in rural India. In this paper, we construct a simple model of a village economy that captures several of the salient … outcomes observed in the village. We suggest that to the extent that there exist other villages in rural India with such …
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Estimates of multidimensional poverty for India using NSSO-71 and -75
Mothkoor, Venugopal; Badgaiyan, Nina - 2021
We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416557
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Poverty and happiness : an examination of the factors influencing happiness among the extreme poor in rural Ghana
Ayerakwa, Hayford M.; Osei, Robert Darko; Osei-Akoto, Isaac - 2015
Every person desires some level of inner fulfilment at different stages of life and this could come from a combination of several factors including material and resource acquisition and social prestige. The challenge, however, is whether happiness levels across the different social strata are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496116
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Pro-poor service delivery and social identity : an experimental investigation
Mueller, Ulrike - 2012
India addressed the requirement for pro-poor service delivery in rural regions by introducing decentralization and … ; India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009541854
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Rural household income mobility in transitional China : evidence from China Household Income Project
Yang, Sui - 2015
Based on China Household Income Project rural data, this paper aims to study the changes of rural household income mobility in transitional China. The results show that with the economic reform and development, income mobility between 2007 and 2009 was much stronger than before. Regarding the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470414
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Reference groups and the poverty line : an axiomatic approach with an empirical illustration
Chakravarty, Satya R.; Chattopadhyay, Nachiketa; … - 2015
India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462538
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PROCEDE : a failed programme to reduce poverty and inequalities in Mexico
De Ita, Ana - 2022
This paper analyses the land tenure reform that took place in Mexico in 1992 and its PROCEDE programme (Ejido Rights Certification Programme). It considers the counter-agrarian reform's objectives, the context in which it was proposed, and the different actors involved. It delves into the main...
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Identifying destitution through linked subsets of multidimensionally poor : an ordinal approach
Alkire, Sabina; Seth, Suman - 2015
In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial to distinguish them from the moderately poor population. In this paper, we explore the mechanisms to distinguish subsets of the poor in a multidimensional counting framework....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428171
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Did rapid smallholder-led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty? : making sense of Malawi's poverty puzzle
Pauw, Karl; Beck, Ulrik; Mussa, Richard - 2014
Disappointment was widespread when rapid economic growth since 2005, coupled with a smallholder-targeted fertilizer subsidy program, failed to significantly reduce poverty in Malawi. Official estimates for 2011 showed a 1.7 percentage point decline in national poverty between 2005 and 2011,...
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