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E-Commerce Participation and Household Income Growth in Taobao Villages
Luo, Xubei - 2019
E-commerce has developed rapidly in China, and Taobao Villages, which are villages significantly engaged in e-commerce, are prospering in rural areas. E-commerce is fostering entrepreneurship and creating flexible and inclusive employment opportunities, including for women and youth. This paper...
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Responses to Weather and Climate : A Cross-Section Analysis of Rural Incomes
Noack, Frederik - 2017
How much do poor rural households rely on environmental extraction from natural ecosystems? And how does climate variability impact their livelihoods? This paper sheds light on these two questions with household income data from the Poverty and Environment Network pantropical data set, combined...
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Poverty and Inequality Maps for Rural Vietnam : An Application of Small Area Estimation
Nguyen, Cuong Viet - 2017
The objective of the paper is to update the small area estimates of poverty and inequality for rural Vietnam. The new estimates of province and district level poverty for the year 2006, when combined with estimates available for 1999, allow for examination of how poverty has changed in rural...
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The Role of Services in Rural Income : The Case of Vietnam
Aksoy, Ataman - 2016
This paper investigates the role of services in the household response to trade reforms in Vietnam. The relative response of the households and income growth after a major trade liberalization in rice are analyzed aiming to answer the following questions: What type of households, in which...
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Income Diversification in Zimbabwe : Welfare Implications from Urban and Rural Areas
Ersado, Lire - 2016
The author examines, taking into account the urban-rural divides, the changes and welfare implications of income diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national income, consumption and expenditure surveys in...
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Jati Inequality in Rural Bihar
Joshi, Shareen - 2018
Caste is a persistent driver of inequality in India, and it is generally analyzed with government-defined broad categories, such as Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe. In everyday life, however, caste is lived and experienced as jati, which is a local system of stratification. Little is known...
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Nonfarm Activity and Rural Income Inequality : A Case Study of Two Provinces in China
Zhu, Nong - 2006
Nonfarm activity plays an increasingly important role in rural household income. Based on data from the Living Standards Measurement Study in the provinces of Hebei and Liaoning, the authors study the distribution of nonfarm income in rural China. First, they assume nonfarm income as an...
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An Assessment of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Access in Bangladesh's Community Health Clinics
Joseph, George - 2019
conditions in health facilities. Using data collected through a census of all community health clinics in Bangladesh, this paper … presents an analysis of the state of WASH in Bangladesh's rural, public health facilities highlighting that the lack of …
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The Next Frontier in Water Supply Service Delivery : An Assessment of the Performance of Water Sector Service Providers in Pourashavas in Bangladesh
Bahuguna, Aroha - 2019
sector in pourashavas (municipalities) in Bangladesh provides an analysis of the trends in the water sector development over … the rest of Bangladesh and the world. This analysis finds that although pourashavas perform on the lower end of the … spectrum compared with the rest of Bangladesh on many indicators, the top 20 percent of the pourashavas are globally …
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The Benefits of Solar Home Systems : An Analysis from Bangladesh
Samad, Hussain A. - 2017
The Government of Bangladesh, with help from the World Bank and other donors, has provided aid to a local agency called … role of the subsidy; the factors that determine the adoption of the systems in rural Bangladesh; and the welfare impacts of …
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