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Agricultural Productivity, Hired Labor, Wages and Poverty : Evidence from Bangladesh

Emran, Shahe - 2017

This paper provides evidence on the effects of agricultural productivity on wage rates, labor supply to market oriented activities, and labor allocation between own farming and wage labor in agriculture. To guide the empirical work, this paper develops a general equilibrium model that...

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Rural Roads, Poverty, and Resilience : Evidence from Ethiopia

Nakamura, Shohei - 2019

This study analyzes the impacts of the recent rural road development in Ethiopia on welfare and economic outcomes. The identification of the impacts relies on a difference-in-differences matching approach, taking advantage of the nationally representative household survey and the original road...

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Impact of Drought on Poverty in Somalia

Pape, Utz Johann - 2019

Understanding the magnitude and importance of income shocks, such as drought or conflict, in causing and perpetuating poverty is critical to designing policies aimed at building resilience and contributing toward the goal of ending poverty. This paper uses micro-data from two waves of the Somali...

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Are Microcredit Participants in Bangladesh Trapped in Poverty and Debt?

Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2017

This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics have argued in recent years. Analysis of data from a long panel survey over a 20-year period confirms this is not the case, although numerous participants have been with...

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Energy Access, Efficiency, and Poverty : How Many Households are Energy Poor in Bangladesh?

Barnes, Douglas F. - 2017

Access to energy, especially modern sources, is a key to any development initiative. Based on cross-section data from a 2004 survey of some 2,300 households in rural Bangladesh, this paper studies the welfare impacts of household energy use, including that of modern energy, and estimates the...

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Lokshin, Michael - 2016

Using two rounds of nationally representative household survey data in this study, the authors measure the impact on poverty in Nepal of local and international migration for work. They apply an instrumental variable approach to deal with nonrandom selection of migrants and simulate various...

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Forests, Biomass Use, and Poverty in Malawi

Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit - 2016

In this paper, the authors seek to answer three questions about poverty and forests in Malawi: (1) What is the extent of biomass available for meeting the energy needs of the poor in Malawi and how is this distributed? (2) To what extent does fuelwood scarcity affect the welfare of the poor? (3)...

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Politics, Public Works and Poverty : Evidence from the Bangladesh Employment Generation Programme for the Poorest

Sharif, Iffath - 2017

Public works programs can be effective safety nets if they help allocate resources toward poor households. By setting wages lower than market rates public works programs identify poor households reasonably well. When these programs are oversubscribed and lack beneficiary selection rules however,...

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Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in Tanzania

Arndt, Channing - 2017

Tanzania. Representative climate projections are used in calibrated crop models to predict crop yield changes for 110 districts … Tanzania. The authors find that, relative to a no-climate-change baseline and considering domestic agricultural production as … the principal channel of impact, food security in Tanzania appears likely to deteriorate as a consequence of climate …

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Seasonality in Local Food Markets and Consumption : Evidence from Tanzania

Kaminski, Jonathan - 2020

markets and three years of nationally representative household panel surveys from Tanzania. Trigonometric specifications are …

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