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What about the women? : female headship, poverty and vulnerability in Thailand and Vietnam
Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Povel, Felix - 2011
panel data of over 4000 rural households from Thailand and Vietnam, we find strong signs of heterogeneity among the … and less vulnerable to poverty than households with a male head. In Vietnam de jure female-headed households are … male-headed households in terms of the analyzed welfare dimensions. These results show how widows and singles in Vietnam …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348629
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Empirical investigations into performance and dynamics of agricultural firms
Brenes Muñoz, Thelma - 2015
This thesis presents three selected studies on the topic of performance and dynamics of agricultural firms. It constitutes three empirical investigations which analyze the factors that determine firm performance, changes in firm size, as well as the extent to which firm performance influences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317333
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Local financial development and economic growth in Vietnam
Tran Tuan Viet - 2019
finanzieller Entwicklung und wirtschaftlichem Wachstum in Vietnam analysieren. Die lokale finanzielle Entwicklung wird für die … development and economic growth in Vietnam. Local financial development is measured at different levels including three distinct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062755
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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy
Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close aggregate correlation between these measures of deprivation, the measures generate some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822811
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Income inequality and carbon emissions
Grunewald, Nicole; Klasen, Stephan; Martínez-Zarzoso, … - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2011
We document a U-shaped relationship between income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions per capita, using a newly available panel data set on income inequality (GINI) with observations for 138 countries over the period 1960–2008. Our findings suggest that, for high-income countries with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278125
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Macroeconomic policy and pro-poor growth in Bolivia
Klasen, Stephan - 2006
In this paper, we analyze the potential and limitations of macroeconomic policy to affect propoor growth in Bolivia. After discussing the possibility to use macro policy to affect pro-poor growth in general, I then turn to the case of Bolivia, a highly dualistic small open economy that undertook...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265071
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Armutsreduzierung im Zeitalter der Globalisierung
Klasen, Stephan - 2006
In diesem Beitrag werden theoretische und empirische Zusammenhänge zwischen Globalisierung und absoluter Armut in Entwicklungsländern beleuchtet. Es wird gezeigt, dass die zunehmende Handelsintegration die Chancen für verbesserte Armutsreduktion eröffnet und viele Entwicklungsländer davon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265074
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Poverty, undernutrition, and child mortality: some inter-regional puzzles and their implications for research and policy
Klasen, Stephan - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close aggregate correlation between these measures of deprivation, the measures generate some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265082
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Looking at pro-poor growth from an agricultural perspective
Klasen, Stephan; Reimers, Malte - 2016
Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing countries. The diagnostic pro-poor growth toolbox has so far focused on the income dimension as well as key non-income achievements in education and health. This article...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460589
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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy
Klasen, Stephan - 2007
This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close aggregate correlation between these measures of deprivation, the measures generate some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296031