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Donors of foreign aid increasingly claim to consider gender inequality in the recipient countries to be a serious … concern. While aid specifically to promote gender equality receives only a tiny share of aid budgets, allocations to education …, health, and civil society projects could be affected by gender inequality concerns. In this paper, we investigate whether …
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An increasing interest in poverty dynamics has lately also led to an extensive literature on the analysis of chronic … poverty. Based on Amartya Sen’s groundbreaking work on capabilities and functionings static poverty measures have long used … non-income indicators. In contrast, measures of poverty dynamics - including chronic poverty have in general …
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We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to poverty using cross-sectional data and panel … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility. -- vulnerability ; poverty ; ROC ; German panel data …
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This paper analyzes several modifications to improve a simple measure of vulnerability as expected poverty. Firstly, in …
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household and thus yield a biased assessment of individual poverty and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show …Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … that the direction of the bias depends on how these measures use individual data to determine the poverty status of …
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