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Will economic growth be sufficient to end global poverty? : new projections of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Yusuf, Arief Anshory; Anna, Zuzy; Komarulzaman, Ahmad; … - 2023
In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water and basic sanitation. Our projections, based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014381180
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Economic inequality and subjective well-being across the world
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2018
We here use repeated cross-section data from the Afrobarometer, Asianbarometer Latinobarometer, and Eurobarometer to analyse the variables that are correlated with both current and future evaluations of standards of living. These are related not only to an individual's own economic resources but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947084
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Inferring the economic standard of living and health from cohort height : evidence from modern populations in developing countries
Akachi, Yoko; Canning, David - 2015
health of a population when other data are not available. We investigate how informative this approach is in terms of … inferring income, nutrition, and mortality using data on heights from developing countries over the last 50 years for female … per thousand (or an 1.25 year increase in life expectancy), and an increase in nutrition of 64 calories and 2 grams of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342277
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Putting it all together : aggregating impacts of school-feeding programmes on education, health and nutrition: two proposed methodologies
Gelli, Aulo; Espejo, Francisco; Shen, Jing; … - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239454
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Characteristics and determinants of child malnutrition in Mozambique, 2003-11
Cardoso, José; Allwright, Lindsey; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2016
at a rather slow pace over the past 15 years. In this study, using the Mozambican Demographic and Health Surveys 2003 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573217
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Child deprivation and income poverty in Ghana
Kofinti, Raymond Elikplim; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2015
This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The first-order dominance methodology was used to examine five dimensions of deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428169
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Intra-household inequalities in child rights and well-being : a barrier to progress?
Rodriguez Takeuchi, Laura - 2015
indicators: nutrition, birth registration, school attendance, and time spent doing work and chores (working hours), with data … nutrition (stunting) and working hours and relatively lower in school attendance, where average outcomes tend to be higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467085
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Income diversification and household welfare in Tanzania 2008-13
Khan, Rumman; Morrissey, Oliver - 2020
This paper uses three waves of Tanzanian National Panel Surveys (2008/09, 2010/11, and 2012/13) to construct a panel from 3,676 households that appear in at least two waves to explore the effect of income diversification on household welfare measured in terms of food consumption. The analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268209
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On the impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governance
Ferreira, Ines A.; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Tarp, Finn - 2021
outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012432946
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The state, the market, and development
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2016
to those advances played by changes in economics, changes in the world, and key experiences (in particular the successes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473933