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Building financial resilience through financial and digital literacy in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Lyons, Angela C.; Kass-Hanna, Josephine; Liu, Fan; … - 2020
Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Current financial inclusion strategies provide these vulnerable populations with access to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181124
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Poverty and ethnicity in Asian countries
Gradín, Carlos - 2016
This paper compares the extent and the nature of the higher prevalence of poverty among disadvantaged ethnic groups in six Asian countries using demographic surveys. We first estimate a composite wealth index as a proxy for economic status, and analyze the magnitude of the ethnic gap in absolute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576827
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The differential effects of technology and trade on female and male workers in India
Sharma, Shruti - 2019
This paper uses the task content model of occupations to investigate whether technology and trade have had differential effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers based on whether they have routine manual, routine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121860
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Urbanization, inequality, and poverty in the People's Republic of China
Zhang, Yuan - 2016
Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and provides further empirical evidence on the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522047
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Does migrating with children influence migrants' occupation choice and income?
Xing, Chunbing; Wei, Yinheng - 2017
This paper studies the impact of migrant children on their parents' occupation choice and wage income using a dataset from a household survey conducted in 2011. We find that the heads of migrant households with school-age children earn significantly less than those who left them at their place...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591170
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Mainstreaming the adaptations and reducing the vulnerability of the poor due to climate change
Ranganathan, C. R.; Palanisami, K.; Kakumanu, K. R.; … - 2011
Many rural poor people in developing countries depend on agriculture and are highly influenced by climatic change. Hence, sustainable livelihood approaches are used at both policy and project level to initiate new poverty reduction activities and modify existing activities to improve livelihood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009389313
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Climate change and vulnerability to poverty : an empirical investigation in rural Indonesia
Fujii, Tomoki - 2016
Scientists estimate that anthropogenic climate change leads to increased surface temperature, sea-level rise, more frequent and significant extreme weather and climate events, among others. In this study, we investigate how climate change can potentially change the vulnerability to poverty using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576822
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Poverty and nutrition : a case study of rural households in Thailand and Viet Nam
Waibel, Hermann; Hohfeld, Lena - 2016
In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty reduction was especially successful. Thailand and Viet Nam are two emerging market economies where poverty rates are now below 10% and are declining further. Despite this success,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576825
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Does digitalization alleviate rural clean energy poverty?
Ying Chen; Chen, Ziqi - 2024
This research investigates the impact of digital village development on clean energy poverty (CEP) in rural areas within the context of energy and digitalization transition in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Utilizing the Index of Digital Rural County (IDRC) and China Family Panel Studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014574256
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Impacts of free trade agreements on business activity in Asia : the case of Japan
Hirastuka, Daisuke; Sato, Hitoshi; Isono, Ikumo - 2009
Free trade agreements (FTAs) have proliferated in East Asia in recent years. As of December 2008, eight bilateral FTAs … pressing issue for Japanese firms because Japanese firms have expanded overseas, particularly into the rest of Asia, which has … contributed to the formation of production networks in East Asia. There have been numerous ex ante studies on the impacts of FTAs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901391