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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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Inclusion amid ethnic inequality : insights from Brazil's social protection system

Sugiyama, Natasha Borges - 2022

Policy frames in Brazil have long run up against conflicting visions and understandings about the causes and consequences of group-based inequality. This paper argues that a class-based lens has dominated the social protection framework. In recent years, political leaders have framed social...

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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....

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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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Poverty and informality in Ecuador

Canelas, Carla - 2015

This paper uses national representative data from the Ecuadorian Family Expenditure survey to study the determinants of poverty and informality in the country, taking into account the simultaneous two-way relationship between these two phenomena. The results support the view of a heterogeneous...

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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...

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Voter coercion and pro-poor redistribution in rural Mexico

Filipovich, Dragan; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Santillán … - 2021

Voter coercion is a recurrent threat to pro-poor redistribution in young democracies. In this study we focus on Mexico's paradigmatic Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera (POP) programme. We investigate whether local mayors exploited POP to coerce voters, and if so, what effect these actions had on...

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Transforming rural economies through tertiary education : evidence from India

Castelló-Climent, Amparo; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Ravinder - 2023

This paper analyses the role of tertiary education on rural development. Using census data on villages in India for … contribution to agriculture is also suggested by satellite-based spatial net primary productivity measures. We inform the larger …

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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 …

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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 …

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