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On Multidimensional Indices of Poverty
Ravallion, Martin - 2017
believe that any single index can ever be a sufficient statistic for poverty assessments? Second, when aggregation is called … multidimensional index. When weights are needed, they shouldn' t be set solely by an analyst measuring poverty. Rather, they should be …There has been a growing interest in what have come to be termed "multidimensional indices of poverty." Advocates for …
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Youth Well-Being in Brazil : An Index for Cross-Regional Comparisons
Dell'Aglio, Debora - 2016
This study constructs three indices to measure how well Brazil's young people are surviving their transition to adulthood. Youth development is difficult to quantify because of the multi-dimensionality of youth behavior. Most monitoring use individual indicators in specific sectors, making it...
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Impact of Climate Change and Aquatic Salinization on Fish Habitats and Poor Communities in Southwest Coastal Bangladesh and Bangladesh Sundarbans
Dasgupta, Susmita - 2017
Fisheries constitute an important source of livelihoods for tens of thousands of poorpeople in the southwest coastal region of Bangladesh living near the UNESCO Heritage Sundarbans mangrove forest, and they supply a significant portion of protein for millions. Among the various threats fisheries...
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Facing the Hungry Tide : Climate Change, Livelihood Threats, and Household Responses in Coastal Bangladesh
Dasgupta, Susmita - 2017
working-age adults (particularly males), dependency ratios, and poverty incidence than their counterparts in non … outside earnings. Those left behind face a far greater likelihood of extreme poverty than their counterparts in less …
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Converting Land into Affordable Housing Floor Space
Bertaud, Alain - 2017
Cities emerge from the spatial concentration of people and economic activities. But spatial concentration is not enough; the economic viability of cities depends on people, ideas, and goods to move rapidly across the urban area. This constant movement within dense cities creates wealth but also...
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Spatial Gaps in Management Quality : Evidence from a Lagging Region in Croatia
Goswami, Arti Grover - 2020
Embedding management and operational practices survey in a broader firm capabilities survey, this report finds that: (i) relative to the rest of Croatia, an average firm in the lagging region of the country (Eastern Croatia) is only slightly behind in the adoption of structured management...
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Spatial Development and Agglomeration Economies in Services -- Lessons from India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
Although many studies consider the spatial pattern of manufacturing plants in developing countries, the role of services as a driver of urbanization and structural transformation is still not well understood. Using establishment level data from India, this paper helps narrow this gap by...
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The Spatial Development of India
Desmet, Klaus - 2017
In the last two decades the Indian economy has been growing unabatedly, with memories of the Hindu rate of growth rapidly fading. But this unprecedented growth has also resulted in widening spatial disparities. While cities such as Hyderabad have emerged as major clusters of high development,...
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Spatial Distributions of Job Accessibility, Housing Rents, and Poverty in Nairobi, Kenya
Nakamura, Shohei - 2018
distributions of job accessibility, housing rents, and poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. It finds that workers and jobs are not well …
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Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth is : Geographic Targeting of World Bank Projects to the Bottom 40 Percent
Öhler, Hannes - 2017
The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the focus of development interventions and cooperation on the income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution...
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