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When is shared sanitation improved sanitation? - The correlation between number of users and toilet hygiene

Günther, Isabel; Niwagaba, Charles B.; Lüthi, Christoph; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The international debate on the question of whether shared and/or public sanitation facilities should be considered … improved is still open. The concern is that a shared sanitation facility cannot be maintained in hygienic conditions when used … percent of households have access to private sanitation facilities; the remaining 78 percent share their toilet with an …

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Low Malnutrition but High Mortality: Explaining the Paradox of the Lake Victoria Region

Gräb, Johannes; Priebe, Jan - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2009

Exploiting DHS data from 235 regions in 29 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, we find that the combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya\'s Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the...

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Low Malnutrition but High Mortality: Explaining the Paradox of the Lake Victoria Region

Priebe, Jan; Gräb, Johannes - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2009

Exploiting DHS data from 235 regions in 29 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, we find that the combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the causes...

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Economic Relationship between Access to Land and Rural Poverty in Nepal

Bjorndal, Trond - In: Applied Economics Journal 21 (2014) 1, pp. 20-41

In the present socio-economic structure of Nepal, land is the main source of income and consumption for the majority of Nepalese. This study analyses the economic relationship between access to land and poverty in Nepal by establishing the link between land and consumption as well as land and...

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Relative Standing and Life-Satisfaction: Does Unobserved Heterogeneity Matter?

Alem, Yonas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

Unlike most studies of subjective well-being in developing countries, we use a fixed effects regression on three rounds of rich panel data to investigate the impact of relative standing on life satisfaction of respondents in urban Ethiopia. We find a consistently large negative impact of...

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Monetary versus non-monetary pro-poor growth: Evidence from rural Ethiopia between 2004 and 2009

Kacem, Rami Ben Haj - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013), pp. 1-22

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the pro-poor growth measurement techniques using monetary versus non-monetary indicators. In this context, an alternative method for introducing non-monetary indicators into monetary pro-poor growth analysis is presented. The method is...

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Monetary versus non-monetary pro-poor growth: Evidence from rural Ethiopia between 2004 and 2009

Kacem, Rami Ben Haj - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

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Transfer Behaviour in Migrant Sending Communities

Steiner, Susan; Chakraborty, Tanika; Mirkasimov, Bakhrom - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

Private transfers between households in developing countries have been extensively studied and shown to be economically important as mechanisms of risk sharing and income redistribution. We argue that migration and remittances have the potential to modify the prevalent transfer behaviour in...

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Transfer Behaviour in Migrant Sending Communities

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mirkasimov, Bakhrom; Steiner, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We study how international migration changes the private transfers made between households in the migrant sending communities of developing countries. A priori, it is indeterminate whether migration and remittances strengthen or weaken the degree of private transfers in these communities. From a...

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Prediction and determination of household permanent income

Abul Naga, Ramses H.; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

This paper is about the determination and prediction of permanent income in household data. Standard static welfare indicators (e.g. per capita expenditure and income) are imperfect in this respect as they typically contain a high transitory component. The framework we employ is consistent with...

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