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Psychic vs. Economic Barriers to Vaccine Take-Up : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria
Sato, Ryoko - 2018
monetary costs among women in rural Nigeria. To measure psychic costs, vaccine take-up between two conditions to receive cash …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927005
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Weather and Child Health in Rural Nigeria
Rabassa, Mariano - 2017
Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey. For this purpose, climate data for each survey cluster are interpolated using daily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974938
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Rural Non-Farm Employment and Household Welfare : Evidence from Malawi
Adjognon, Guigonan Serge - 2017
-farm wage employment and non-farm self-employment are welfare improving and poverty reducing. However, households at the lower … support the promotion of the rural non-farm economy for poverty reduction purposes, they indicate that targeted interventions … curbing rural poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954308
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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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Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme : Evidence from Andhra Pradesh
Deininger, Klaus - 2017
short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974142
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Understanding Child Labor Beyond Poverty : The Structure of the Economy, Social Norms, and No Returns to Rural Basic Education
Krauss, Alexander - 2017
Child labor is pervasive across sub-Saharan Africa. The common assumption is that monetary poverty is its most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974211
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On the Structural Transformation of Rural Africa
Barrett, Christopher B. - 2017
, despite some bright spots, and poverty reduction was steady but discouragingly slow. This paper argues that ending extreme … poverty will require structural change in agriculture, and in rural African economies more broadly. Drawing on a range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965795
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New Rural Access Index : Main Determinants and Correlation to Poverty
Iimi, Atsushi - 2017
Transport connectivity is essential to sustain inclusive growth in developing countries, where many rural populations and businesses are still considered to be unconnected to the domestic, regional, or global market. The Rural Access Index is among the most important global indicators for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967482
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Impacts on Poverty of Removing Fuel Import Subsidies in Nigeria
Siddig, Khalid - 2017
the subsidy on fuel is one of the most contentious socioeconomic policy issues in Nigeria today. In this paper, an economy … in the subsidy generally results in an increase in Nigeria?s gross domestic product, it can have a detrimental impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971341
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Can Agricultural Households Farm Their Way Out of Poverty?
Oseni, Gbemisola - 2020
representative data from the Nigeria General Household Survey Panel, 2010/11. The findings indicate an elasticity of poverty …This paper examines the determinants of agricultural productivity and its link to poverty using nationally … lead to poverty reduction for agricultural households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012856461