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The effectiveness of a demand-driven vocational-training program for disadvantaged youth in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia is assessed through a randomized controlled trial. Mongolia, a transitional country whose economic structure shifted from a Communist, centrally planned economy...
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Women in developing countries are disempowered: high youth unemployment, early marriage and childbearing interact to limit their investments into human capital and enforce dependence on men. The authors evaluate a multi-faceted policy intervention attempting to jumpstart adolescent women's...
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This paper provides new empirical insights on the joint distribution of consumption, income, and wealth in three of the … transmission from income to consumption inequality, which suggests the presence of powerful institutions that favor consumption …
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incumbents. The analysis verifies that these shocks - which reduce consumption growth - are associated with worsening performance …
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surveys that try to measure expenditures on a comprehensive consumption aggregate. This paper investigates the use of … consumption "sub-aggregates" instead. The use of consumption sub-aggregates is theoretically justified if and only if all the … consumption measures remains an unmet challenge …
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finds that becoming a victim of conflict leads to higher food insecurity and decreased consumption. Since different types of … perpetrator. The study finds that events perpetrated by insurgents are the most detrimental to consumption, whereas food … detrimental to consumption and food insecurity than are violent events. Likewise, it finds suggestive evidence that violent events …
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. Using data from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in Malawi and Tanzania …
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Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia … play a critical part in food consumption, with rising prices affecting poor households the most. Although public food …
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This paper examines two new methods to generate gridded agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and compares the results with a traditional method. In the case of Brazil, these two new methods of spatial disaggregation and cross-entropy outperform the prediction of agricultural GDP from the...
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Pakistan is facing a large deficit in electricity supply. A report published by the Government of Pakistan (GoP) in … the ongoing renewable energy resource mapping project in Pakistan. The objective of this biomass mapping component is to … government and provincial authorities in Pakistan, and commercial project developers, with an improved understanding of the …
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