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Distribution-Sensitive Multidimensional Poverty Measures

Datt, Gaurav - 2018

methods to assess dimensional contributions to poverty. An empirical illustration for India highlights distinctive features of …

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Estimating Poverty in India Without Expenditure Data : A Survey-to-Survey Imputation Approach

Newhouse, David Locke - 2019

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The …

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Job Opportunities Along the Rural-Urban Gradation and Female Labor Force Participation in India

Chatterjee, Urmila - 2017

The recent decline in India?s rural female labor force participation is generally attributed to higher rural incomes in … lower, this alleged income effect does not bode well for the empowerment of women as India develops. This paper argues that … misclassification of urban areas as rural, as a result of household surveys lagging behind India?s rapid urbanization process. The …

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Paris Climate Agreement and the Global Economy : Winners and Losers

Mani, Muthukumara - 2018

China, the United States, and India, decided on a more gradual phasing out extending beyond 2030. This paper estimates the … welfare loss of about 1.5 percent. Some of the major emitters, such as China and India, will experience minimal impacts to …

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Finding the Poor vs. Measuring Their Poverty : Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia

Bah, Adama - 2018

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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Do Different Types of Assets Have Differential Effects on Child Education? Evidence from Tanzania

Kafle, Kashi Ram - 2020

To assess the conventional view that assets uniformly improve childhood development through wealth effects, this paper tests whether different types of assets have different effects on child education. The analysis indicates that household durables and housing quality have the expected positive...

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Estimating Poverty Among Refugee Populations : A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad

Beltram, Theresa - 2020

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, by combining United Nations High Commissioner for...

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Multidimensional Poverty Assessment of Internally Displaced Persons in Iraq

Noumedem Temgoua, Claudia - 2020

Decades of conflict have contributed to high flows of internal displacement in Iraq. The incidence of these flows on the welfare of internally displaced persons is not well understood. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature by investigating the link between internal displacement...

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Assessing Deprivation with an Ordinal Variable : Theory and Application to Sanitation Deprivation in Bangladesh

Seth, Suman - 2020

The challenges associated with poverty measurement with a cardinal variable have received due attention during the last …

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Measuring Time Use in Development Settings

Seymour, Greg - 2017

This paper discusses the challenges associated with collecting time-use data in developing countries. The paper suggests potential solutions, concentrating on the two most common time-use methods used in development settings: stylized questions and time diaries. The paper identifies a...

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