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Choices for spending government revenue : new African oil, gas, and mining economies
Witter, Sophie; Jakobsen, Maja - 2017
health and education by new oil and gas revenues, and what other uses of those revenues are likely to arise. The paper argues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672032
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Poverty, changing political regimes, and social cash transfers in Zimbabwe, 1980 - 2016
Chinyoka, Isaac - 2017
Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634470
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Child deprivation and income poverty in Ghana
Kofinti, Raymond Elikplim; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2015
rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The first-order dominance methodology was used to examine five dimensions of … income poverty are imperative for different locations in Ghana. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428169
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Quantifying the impacts of expanding social protection on efficiency and equity : evidence from a behavioural microsimulation model for Ghana
Osei, Robert Darko; Pirttilä, Jukka; Rattenhuber, Pia - 2017
protection. Results from a new tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ghana are combined with the extensive margin elasticity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776419
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Fifty years of Asian experience in the spread of education and healthcare
Mundle, Sudipto - 2018
. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898729
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Ethnic heterogeneity and public goods provision in Zambia : further evidence of a subnational 'diversity dividend'
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Leiderer, Stefan; … - 2014
The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational empirical evidence in particular is inconclusive, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010443089
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Gender inequalities among adults and children in collective households
Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca - 2017
This paper studies the distribution of resources within Albanian families in 2012 using a collective consumption model with two alternative specifications: the first enables the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources among male adults, female adults and children; the second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641342
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Ordinal welfare comparisons with multiple discrete indicators : a first order dominance approach and application to child poverty
Arndt, Channing; Distante, Roberta; Hussain, Mohammad Azhar - 2012
We develop an approach for making welfare comparisons between populations with multidimensional discrete well-being indicators observed at the micro level. The approach is rooted in the concept of multidimensional first order dominance. It assumes that, for each indicator, the levels can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516692
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Multidimensional poverty of children in Mozambique
Mahrt, Kristi; Rossi, Andrea; Salvucci, Vincenzo; Tarp, Finn - 2018
We analyse the multidimensional wellbeing of children aged 0-17 in Mozambique and find that 46.3 per cent can be considered multidimensionally poor. A substantial divide exists between urban and rural areas and between northern and southern provinces. We compare Mozambican children's wellbeing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913126
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Microsimulation approaches to studying shocks and social protection in selected developing economies
Adu-Ababio, Kwabena - 2022
This paper calculates automatic stabilization in Ghana, South Africa, and Ecuador to explain income cushioning amid … insurance. A discretionary action approach is adopted for Ghana as it fails shock resistance tests by introducing additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013269672