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, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …
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This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures … unambiguously poverty-increasing and they are also invariant to changes in the distribution of a given set of deprivations amongst … axiomatic justification for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures. Given the nonlinear structure of these …
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This paper investigates whether social structure helps or hinders factor allocation using unusually rich data from The Gambia. Evidence indicates that land available for cultivation is allocated unequally across households; and that factor transfers are more common between neighbors, co-ethnics,...
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Centralized targeting registries are increasingly used to allocate social assistance benefits in developing countries. There are two key design issues that matter for targeting accuracy: (i) which households to survey for inclusion in the registry and (ii) how to rank surveyed households. The...
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, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40-60 percent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period and, thus, are likely to be …
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Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad … poverty estimates based on administrative data that fall within a 95 percent margin of poverty estimates based on survey …
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by investigating the link between internal displacement and multidimensional poverty, using one of the most comprehensive … household surveys for poverty analysis in Iraq. The results show crucial differences between internally displaced and non …-displaced households with respect to multidimensional poverty. Furthermore, instrumental variable regression analysis suggests that the …
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and poverty levels, as well as to the misclassification of some individuals as regards to their poverty status. Using a … overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty …
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The challenges associated with poverty measurement with a cardinal variable have received due attention during the last … four decades, but there is a dearth of literature studying how to meaningfully assess poverty with an ordinal variable …. This paper first proposes a class of simple, intuitive and policy-relevant poverty measures for ordinal variables. These …
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Subsidies to residential utility customers are popular among policymakers, utility managers, and utility customers alike, but they are nonetheless the subject of much controversy. Utility subsidies are seen as a way to help make utility service affordable for poor households and as an...
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