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Price Trends in India and Their Implications for Measuring Poverty
Deaton, Angus - 2008
Agricultural Labourers (CPIAL) for rural India, and the Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (CPIIW) for urban India. Over … official poverty counts for rural India in 2004-5 are too low; the official headcount ratio of 28.3 percent should be closer to …, something that could be straightforwardly done using India's regular system of household expenditure surveys …
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How Real is the Secular Decline in Poverty in India?
Suryanarayana, M. H. - 2000
safety-nets for the poor in developing countries like India are often formulated with inadequate appreciation of empirical … lead to wrong choice and design of instruments and policies. This issue is examined with reference to India. There is a …
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Diets, Nutrition and Poverty : The Indian Experience
Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - 2014
This paper focuses on the Indian experience with dietary changes, their nutritional implications, and policy response to alleviate nutritional deprivation. We review the evidence on nutrient intake and dietary changes, particularly the downward shift in calorie, protein and other nutrient intake...
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Marriage as an argument for energy poverty reduction : the moderating role of financial inclusion
Asongu, Simplice; Ogbonna, Amarachi O.; Mete, Mariette C. N. - 2024
The present research extends the extant literature by investigating the hypothesis on whether marriage can be a substitute for financial inclusion in energy poverty reduction in Ghana. Pooled data and two stage least squares techniques are used in the estimation process and the validity of the...
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A measurement error approach to the study of poverty
Rosati, Nicoletta - 2001
This study investigates the pattern of poverty in Italy in the 1980s and the 1990s, by means of both eonsumption and ineome measures, so as to separate the permanent and temporary eomponents. The empirie al analysis we eonduet addresses not only eeonomie issues, but also those of survey...
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Konsummuster und Konsumarmut von SGB-II-Leistungsempfängern: Eine Untersuchung auf Basis der Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe
Christoph, Bernhard; Pauser, Johannes; Wiemers, Jürgen - 2014
Trotz der hohen konzeptionellen Bedeutung, welche die Analyse von Konsumausgaben bei der Festlegung der SGB-II-Regelsätze hat, liegen bisher kaum Forschungsergebnisse über den Konsum der Leistungsempfänger selbst vor. Ausgehend von dieser Forschungslücke analysieren wir im vorliegenden...
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The reliability of small area estimation prediction methods to track poverty
Christiaensen, Luc J.; Lanjouw, Peter; Luoto, Jill; … - 2010
Tracking poverty is predicated on the availability of comparable consumption data and reliable price deflators. However, regular series of strictly comparable data are only rarely available. Poverty prediction methods that track consumption correlates as opposed to consumption itself have been...
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The poverty effects of a "Fat-tax" in Ireland
Madden, David - 2013
To combat growing levels of obesity, health related taxes have been suggested with taxes on foods high in fat or sugar. Such taxes have been criticised on the basis of their regressivity and potentially adverse impact upon poverty. This paper analyses the effect of such taxes on a range of...
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Poverty-reducing directions of indirect marginal tax reforms in Ireland
Are, Wasiu Adekunle - 2012
The composition of tax revenue in Ireland had changed dramatically over the past decade, with indirect taxes accounting for a large share of total tax revenue. This shift towards indirect taxation more than direct taxation tends to put excessive burden on the poor, thereby raising the concern...
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Konsummuster und Konsumarmut von SGB-II-Leistungsempfängern : eine Untersuchung auf Basis der Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe
Christoph, Bernhard; Pauser, Johannes; Wiemers, Jürgen - 2014
Up until now, our knowledge on the consumption patterns of recipients of Unemployment Benefit II, the means tested basic security system for employable persons in Germany, is rather restricted. This comes somewhat as a surprise, since analyses of consumption are highly relevant for setting...
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