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The Role of Services in Rural Income : The Case of Vietnam
Aksoy, Ataman - 2016
positively to the impact of trade reforms. Although most of the service variables have a positive and significant effect on … coverage of infrastructure services in Vietnam even before the reforms. When service availability is very similar across …
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Measuring Financial Protection in Health
Wagstaff, Adam - 2017
Health systems are not just about improving health: good ones also ensure that people are protected from the financial consequences of receiving medical care. Anecdotal evidence suggests health systems often perform badly in this respect, apparently with devastating consequences for households,...
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The Link between Poverty and Malnutrition : A Household Theoretic Approach
Schiff, Maurice - 2017
Past studies have identified nutrition exclusively with nutrient intake. A better definition of nutrition would critically affect the link between poverty and malnutrition and would affect the implications for policies designed to improve the nutritional status of the poor. This paper focuses on...
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Domestic Water Pricing with Household Surveys : A Study of Acceptability and Willingness to Pay in Chongqing, China
Wang, Hua - 2016
, as well as households'willingness to pay for water service improvement. The results obtained from these surveys can be … bounded discrete choice study conducted in Chongqing, China. In this case, domestic water service quality was seriously … inadequate, but financial resources were insufficient to improve service quality. With a survey of about 1,500 households in five …
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The Impact of Commodity Price Changes on Rural Households : The Case of Coffee in Uganda
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2016
Policies and external shocks affecting agriculture, the main source of income for rural households, can be expected to have a significant impact on poverty. The authors study the case of Uganda. Throughout the 1990s, more than 90 percent of its poor lived in rural areas and, during the same...
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Azerbaijan's Household Survey Data : Explaining Why Inequality is so Low
Ersado, Lire - 2016
While the Azerbaijan household income and expenditure survey (HIES) data satisfy most empirical regularities expected in a typical household survey data, the unequality measures based on the data are unusually low. For example, for the latest three years for which we have data (2002-2004), the...
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Welfare Measurement Bias in Household and On-Site Surveying of Water-Based Recreation : An Application to Lake Sevan, Armenia
Laplante, Benoît - 2016
Studies comparing household surveys with on-site interceptor surveys have typically accounted for over-sampling avid users in the on-site interceptor surveys (that is, endogenous stratification). However, these studies have typically not accounted for the possibility that the household sample...
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Missing(Ness) in Action : Selectivity Bias in Gps-Based Land Area Measurements
Carletto, Calogero - 2020
Land area is a fundamental component of agricultural statistics, and of analyses undertaken by agricultural economists. While household surveys in developing countries have traditionally relied on farmers' own, potentially error-prone, land area assessments, the availability of affordable and...
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Shelter from the Storm? Household-Level Impacts of, and Responses to, the 2015 Floods in Malawi
Kilic, Talip - 2020
As extreme weather events intensify due to climate change, it becomes ever more critical to understand how vulnerable households are to these events and the mechanisms households can rely on to minimize losses effectively. This paper analyzes the impacts of the floods that occurred during the...
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Stronger Together : Intra-Household Cooperation and Household Welfare in Malawi
McCarthy, Nancy - 2020
It has long been recognized that household decision-making may not result in outcomes consistent with the unitary household model. Within the collective bargaining framework, consumption decisions would be driven by the spouse with greater bargaining power, while the outcomes would still be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012854349