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Aspirations Unfulfilled : Malaysia's Cost of Living Challenges
World Bank Group - 2020
Despite Malaysia's low and stable inflation rate, there has been an ongoing debate regarding perceived increases in the cost of living in the country. The concerns are frequently expressed in public policy discussions, the mass media, and private conversation. The issue has featured prominently...
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How useful is CPI price data for spatial price adjustment in poverty measurement? : a case from Ghana
Chen, Xiaomeng; Mungai, Rose; Nakamura, Shohei; … - 2020
Measuring and comparing the levels of household welfare and poverty in a country require cost-of-living differences across regions to be properly adjusted. In measuring the spatial cost of living, the recent literature underscores the importance of detailed product quality information in the...
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Prices for Poverty Analysis in Africa
Gaddis, Isis - 2016
Measuring poverty requires adjusting nominal consumption (or income) into a real value of consumption, across geographic areas and over time. To this end, data on consumer prices are used to construct a price index. There are a range of approaches to do this, from using the consumer price index,...
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Is Living in African Cities Expensive?
Nakamura, Shohei - 2016
Although several studies have examined why overall price levels are higher in richer countries, little is known about whether there is a similar relationship at the urban and city level across countries. This paper compares the price levels of cities in Sub-Saharan Africa with those of other...
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CPI Bias and Its Implications for Poverty Reduction in Africa
Dabalen, Andrew - 2016
International poverty estimates for countries in Africa commonly rely on national consumer price indexes to adjust trends in nominal consumption over time for changes in the cost of living. However, the consumer price index is subject to various types of measurement bias. This paper uses Engel...
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Vanishing returns? : potential returns and constraints to input adoption among smallholder farmers in Uganda
Hill, Ruth Vargas; Mejía Mantilla, Carolina; Vasilaky, … - 2018
This paper estimates the profitability of fertilizer and hybrid seeds in Uganda, using agronomic evidence on the yield … Uganda. The paper also examines the impact of other factors that could affect input adoption, by using a relatively long …
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Impact of fiscal policy on poverty and inequality in Uganda : fiscal incidence analysis using the UNHS 2016/17
Mejía Mantilla, Carolina; Fajardo-Gonzalez, Johanna; … - 2019
transfers, indirect subsidies, and in-kind transfers) on the level of poverty and inequality in Uganda, using the … internationally recognized methodology developed by the Commitment to Equity institute. The results show that Uganda's fiscal policy …-kind transfers, are the biggest contributors to reducing inequality. Although equalizing, fiscal policy is poverty-inducing in Uganda …
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Learning from power sector reform : the case of Uganda
Godinho, Catrina; Eberhard, Anton A. - 2019
Uganda's power sector structure is among the most sophisticated in Sub-Saharan Africa, and Uganda is one of only a …
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Why are connection charges so high? : an analysis of the electricity sector in Sub-Saharan Africa
Blimpo, Moussa P.; McRae, Shaun D.; Steinbuks, Jevgenijs - 2018
This study develops and structurally estimates a model of household and electric utility behavior to describe how the low access rates and high connection charges that are common in the Sub-Saharan Africa region arise from regulated electricity tariffs being set too low. As a result, the...
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Better than most : teacher beliefs about effort and ability in Uganda
Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Kacker, Kanishka; Habyarimana, … - 2018
in public-private partnership schools in Uganda, wherein teacher self-beliefs are contrasted with their beliefs about …
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