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Wider Economic Benefits of Investments in Transport Corridors and the Role of Complementary Policies

Melecky, Martin - 2018

This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare …-in-difference method. The results suggest that the highways shifted employment from the farm to the nonfarm sector, and that this shift was …, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …

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Estimating Poverty in India Without Expenditure Data : A Survey-to-Survey Imputation Approach

Newhouse, David Locke - 2019

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The …

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The Exceptional Persistence of India's Unorganized Sector

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional … economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First …, the unorganized sector is large, accounting for more than 99 percent of establishments and 80 percent of employment in …

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Non-Farm Diversification, Poverty, Economic Mobility and Income Inequality : a Case Study in Village India

Lanjouw, Peter F. (contributor); Murgai, Rinku (contributor) - 2017

This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the … mobility among the poorest segments of rural society. Efforts by the government of India to accelerate the process of … transformation currently underway in rural India …

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Inequality, Poverty and the Intra-Household Allocation of Consumption in Senegal

De Vreyer, Philippe - 2020

Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence. The current practice of ignoring inequality within households could lead to an underestimation of both overall inequality and poverty levels, as well as to the misclassification...

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Where They Live : District-Level Measures of Poverty, Average Consumption, and the Middle Class in Central Asia

Seitz, William Hutchins - 2019

Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the uneven spread of prosperity left many communities struggling to catch up. To support lagging regions within countries, each of the region's five national governments has made...

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Gone with the Storm : Rainfall Shocks and Household Well-Being in Guatemala

Baez, Javier Eduardo - 2017

This paper investigates the causal consequences of Tropical Storm Agatha (2010) -- the strongest tropical storm everto strike Guatemala since rainfall records have been kept -- on household welfare. The analysis reveals substantial negative effects, particularly among urban households. Per...

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Can We Measure Resilience? A Proposed Method and Evidence from Countries in the Sahel

Alfani, Federica - 2017

Although resilience has become a popular concept in studies of poverty and vulnerability, it has been difficult to obtain a credible measure of resilience. This difficulty is because the data required to measure resilience, which involves observing household outcomes over time after every...

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Rent Imputation for Welfare Measurement : A Review of Methodologies and Empirical Findings

Balcázar Salazar, Carlos - 2017

As well acknowledged in the literature, housing is often the dominant consumption good for most households. As such, it should be included in a comprehensive welfare aggregate to measure people's living standards accurately. However, assigning a value to the flow of the dwelling for homeowners...

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Estimating Poverty in the Absence of Consumption Data : The Case of Liberia

Dabalen, Andrew - 2017

In much of the developing world, the demand for high frequency quality household data for poverty monitoring and program design far outstrips the capacity of the statistics bureau to provide such data. In these environments, all available data sources must be leveraged. Most surveys, however, do...

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