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Food prices, access to markets and child undernutrition in Ethiopia
Brenton, Paul; Nyawo, Mike - 2019
This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings Standards Measurement Survey and utilizes market prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022286
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Inequality and welfare dynamics in the Russian Federation during 1994-2015
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lokshin, Michael; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2018
findings show rising income levels and decreasing inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather … significantly associated with reduced downward mobility and increased income growth. However, a similar transition from the private … sector to the public sector is negatively associated with income growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002184
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The important role of equivalence scales : household size, composition, and poverty dynamics in the Russian Federation
Abanokova, Kseniya; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lokshin, Michael - 2020
factor. Interestingly, the direction of income mobility might change depending on the specific scale parameters that are … employed. The results are robust to different measures of chronic poverty, income expectations, reference groups, functional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241329
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Lives and livelihoods : estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020
This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241367
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Food insecurity and rising food prices : what do we learn from experiential measures?
Jolliffe, Dean; Seff, Ilana; De La Fuente, Alejandro - 2018
Throughout many countries in the world, the measurement of food security currently includes accounting for the importance of perception and anxiety about meeting basic food needs. Using panel data from Malawi, this paper shows that worrying about food security is linked to self-reports of having...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871328
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The performance of a consumption augmented asset index in ranking households and identifying the poor
Ngo, Diana; Christiaensen, Luc J. - 2018
Asset ownership indices are widely used as inexpensive proxies for consumption. This paper shows that these indices can be augmented using dichotomous indicators for consumption, which are equally easy to obtain. The paper uses multiple rounds of Living Standards Measurement Study surveys from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011843481
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South Asia's Hotspots : The Impact of Temperature and Precipitation Changes on Living Standards
Mani, Muthukumara - 2009
South Asia is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Most previous studies have focused on the projected impacts of sea-level rise or extreme weather - droughts, floods, heatwaves and storm surges. This study adds to that knowledge by identifying the impacts of long-term changes in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644120
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Technical Poverty Estimation Report : Myanmar Poverty and Living Conditions Survey
Myanmar Ministry of Planning and Finance - 2017
A joint analysis of poverty and living standards was conducted by a technical team from the Ministry of Planning and Finance, Government of Myanmar, and the Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World Bank. Poverty has previously been estimated using data from the Integrated Household Living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644947
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The Philippines Sustainable Livelihood Program : Providing and Expanding Access to Employment and Livelihood Opportunities
Acosta, Pablo A. - 2018
The Philippines Department of Social Welfare and Development has taken the lead in providingopportunities for income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645301
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Qualitative Study of Household Livelihood Strategies and Constraints in Zambia
Poulin, Michelle - 2018
Inclusive growth and poverty reduction requires an understanding of the constraints to increasing productivity of the informal sector, which employs the majority of Zambians. Zambians working in this sector are poor, have little education, die young from avoidable diseases, and live...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645605