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Disability, Poverty, and Schooling in Developing Countries : Results from 11 Household Surveys
Filmer, Deon - 2006
This paper analyzes the relationship between whether a young person has a disability, the poverty status of their … the population is identified as having a disability. Youth with disabilities sometimes live in poorer households, but the … schooling attainment. The order of magnitude of the school participation disability deficit is often larger than those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060181
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Hybrid Survey to Improve the Reliability of Poverty Statistics in a Cost-Effective Manner
Ahmed, Faizuddin - 2017
This paper studies the benefits, in terms of reliability and frequency of poverty statistics, of conducting a hybrid …. Collecting detailed consumption or income data for the purpose of estimating poverty is costly and many low-income countries … consumption models developed from a previous round of household survey data to project poverty data. Although this approach is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973020
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Potential for Application of a Probabilistic Catastrophe Risk Modelling Framework to Poverty Outcomes : General Form Vulnerability Functions Relating Household Poverty Outcomes to...
Porter, Catherine - 2017
vulnerability to poverty using the example of drought hazard impacts on the welfare of rural households in Ethiopia. The aim is to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968739
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Early Warning, Early Action : The Use of Predictive Tools in Drought Response Through Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme
Drechsler, Mareile Beate Stephanie - 2017
This paper investigates the use of early warning tools as part of Ethiopia's Disaster Risk Management framework. Analyzing, in particular, the Livelihoods, Early Assessment and Protection tool, Livelihood Integrated Assessment and Hotspots Assessments, the paper delineates the scope and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968740
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Is Consanguinity an Impediment to Improving Human Development Outcomes?
Mete, Cem - 2017
This paper uses unique data collected in rural Pakistan to assess the extent to which consanguinity, which is widespread in North Africa, Central and West Asia, and most parts of South Asia, is linked to child cognitive ability and nutritional status. As economic benefits of marrying cousins may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954326
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Does Parental Disability Matter to Child Education? Evidence from Vietnam
Nguyen, Cuong Viet - 2017
This paper examines the effect of parental disability on school enrollment and educational performance for children in … of parents with a disability have a lower enrollment rate in primary and secondary school of about 8 percentage points …: 73 percent compared with 81 percent. However, the association of parental disability with educational performance is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975860
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Beyond Capital : Monitoring Development Outcomes of Multinational Enterprises
Lejarraga, Iza - 2018
This study presents a novel set of indicators on outcomes of foreign direct investment spanning 63 developing countries and 10 areas that matter for development. Building on decade-long data collection by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys, the indicators highlight systematic differences between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906342
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Global Inequality : The Implications of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century
Lakner, Christoph - 2017
In the 2000s, global inequality fell for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, driven by a decline in the dispersion of average incomes across countries. Between 1988 and 2008, a period of rapidly increasing global integration, income growth was largest for the global top 1 percent and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968216
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Pyramid Capitalism : Political Connections, Regulation, and Firm Productivity in Egypt
Diwan, Ishac - 2017
This paper uses an original database of 469 politically connected firms under the Mubarak regime inEgypt to explore the economic effects of close state-business relations. Previous research has shown that political connections are lucrative. The paper addresses several questions raised by this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971469
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The Return Of"Patrimonial Capitalism" : Review of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century
Milanovic, Branko - 2017
The paper provides a detailed review of Thomas Piketty's book "Capital in the 21st century." It focuses on the new contributions of the book, and in particular on its unified treatment of economic growth, functional income distribution, and concentration of personal income. It concludes that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972971