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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 … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …
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
This paper attempts to measure the extent of inequality within households and its contribution to overall levels of inequality in child well-being. The paper analyses the distribution of resources (outcomes) between girls and boys for four indicators: nutrition, birth registration, school...
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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The welfare impact of Viet Nam's national target programme "building a new countryside" : a quasi-experimental evaluation
Verwimp, Philip; Zhang, Sisi - 2018
We evaluate the impact on household income of Viet Nam's national target programme to build a new countryside for the period from 2010 to 2015. The purpose of the programme is to modernize rural Viet Nam. Given the universal implementation of the programme, we use a quasi-experimental approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947056
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Recovery with distress : unpacking COVID-19 impact on livelihoods and poverty in Bangladesh
Rahman, Hussain Zillur; Rahman, Atiya; Faruk, Md. Saiful; … - 2022
The social and ecomomic impact of COVID-19 has been deep, wide-ranging, and multidimensional. While anecdotal evidence of distress among the poor, particularly those with informal occupations, has been widespread, effective policy response has required real-time, researched data disaggregated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816294
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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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Exploring the quality of income data in two African household surveys for the purpose of tax-benefit microsimulation modelling : imputing employment income in Tanzania and Zambia
McLennan, David; Noble, Michael; Wright, Gemma Clare; … - 2021
The quality of data on employment income is explored using Tanzanian and Zambian household survey datasets. The extent of missing and implausible income data is assessed and four different methods are applied to impute missing or implausible values. The four imputation methods are also applied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608576
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Gender bias and the intrahousehold distribution of resources : evidence from African nuclear households in South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence; Ntuli, Miracle - 2017
there is a sharp gender differential in terms of poverty. Ignoring economies of scale leads to an overestimation of poverty … underestimation of child poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628207
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Income mobility in the developing world : recent approaches and evidence
Himanshu; Lanjouw, Peter - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2020
evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics. We then describe evidence on economic mobility obtained via synthetic … classes by households over time: poverty is not inevitably a chronic condition. However, less clear are the factors driving … northern India over seven decades. We describe patterns of poverty dynamics and economic mobility in the village, and we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161301
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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
Average adult height is a physical measure of the biological standard of living of a population. While the biological and economic standards of living of a population are very different concepts, they are linked and may empirically move together. If this is so, then cohort heights can also be...
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