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This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education investments, employment patterns and other features of the of the economic lives of the middle classes defined as those whose daily consumption per capita is between $2 and $4 or...
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from Bangladesh and Mexico, and use the model estimates to compute poverty rates for men, women, and children. Contrary to … existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take …
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that female-headed households are poorer than male-headed households. Poverty is also found to be more prevalent in rural … areas, in households whose heads are illiterate, and in households whose heads work in the informal sector. As for poverty … dynamics, the results show that poverty increased in Cameroon between 1996 and 2001. Despite the fact that some results are the …
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This paper develops a methodology to measure the impact of price changes on poverty measured by an entire class of … additive separable poverty measures. This impact is captured by means of price elasticity of poverty. The total effect of … changes in price on poverty is explained in terms of two components. The first component is the income effect of the change in …
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that households headed by women are poorer than those headed by men. Poverty is also found to be more prevalent in rural … areas, in households whose heads are illiterate, and in households whose heads works in the informal sector. As for poverty … dynamics, the results show that poverty increased in Cameroon between 1996 and 2001. Despite the fact that some results are the …
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This paper offers a micro-founded general definition of poverty set in the context of utility theory. Poverty and non-poverty …
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Risk may induce precautionary saving but it can also reduce saving. The theoretical literature recognizes both possibilities, but favors a positive effect (both for developed and developing countries); the empirical literature is divided, reporting (small) positive effects for developed...
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This paper analyses the evolution of consumption poverty in Rwanda between 2001/1 and 2010/11, using three comparable …. The first half of the 2000s was associated with slow poverty reduction and an increase in inequality, while in the second … half of the period there was faster consumption growth, a sharp fall in poverty, and a modest reduction in inequality …
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This paper decomposes differences between the official poverty estimates of Malawi and a set of revised estimates by … conversion factors; (ii) the specification and use of regional poverty lines as opposed to a single national poverty line; (iii …) the use of implicit survey-based prices rather than external price data; (iv) estimation of food separate poverty lines in …
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Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy's role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household rice receipts by 30 percentage points. Second, we...
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