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approach-for a South Africa dataset. Post-imputation results are assessed. It is argued that the treatment of missing data …
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For years, the international development community has been considering poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon, which … approach to thoroughly measure poverty. This paper is an attempt to assess the state and evolution of multidimensional poverty …. However, there need to be more efforts to reduce the gap in poverty headcount ratios among Kinh and non-Kinh groups …
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difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard poverty measurement requires … estimated poverty headcount was twice as high. There is evidence of survey fatigue occurring early in phone interviews but not …
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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...
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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 …
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assess their well-being in the period 1995-2011. Our findings show that if economic growth is pro-poor and inclusive, more … people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates …
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This study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of …
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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...
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.e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa … there is a sharp gender differential in terms of poverty. Ignoring economies of scale leads to an overestimation of poverty … underestimation of child poverty. …
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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 …
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