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Divorce and widowhood succeeded by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous marital trajectories affect women's well-being. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with measures of voice, resource constraints, and...
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People living in poverty are particularly vulnerable to shocks, including those caused by natural disasters such as …-day and future flood and drought hazard maps. The paper defines and calculates a "poverty exposure bias" and finds support … households, suggesting that different mechanisms-such as land scarcity-are more important drivers in urban areas. The poverty …
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hazard maps and spatial socioeconomic data. The paper also examines flood exposure and poverty at the local level within Ho …
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Surveys in 2010, 2012, and 2014 to investigate the relationship between environmental risks and poverty. Using recently … drought hazards, the study shows: (i) at the district level, there are hotspots of high poverty and environmental risks; (ii …
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This paper presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare, and a tool to help decision makers identify the most promising policy options to reduce welfare...
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poverty. The comprehensive assessment for Sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely …
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Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version …, thus diminishing the impact on poverty. Some methodological changes perform better, with a poverty-quantile method … as well, or almost as well, in reducing poverty. However, even with a budget sufficient to eliminate poverty with full …
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