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Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …
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The social and ecomomic impact of COVID-19 has been deep, wide-ranging, and multidimensional. While anecdotal evidence of distress among the poor, particularly those with informal occupations, has been widespread, effective policy response has required real-time, researched data disaggregated...
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out of poverty have been recorded in a wide array of literature, the employment outcome of participating in a microcredit … program as a pathway to poverty reduction has been studied much less. Using two waves of longitudinal data on over 2000 … participants and raised the potential for income growth that contributed to poverty reduction. …
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Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the …
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This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …
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poverty. It is based on the findings of primary fieldwork on the char islands of north-west Bangladesh, investigating the … poor women to achieve their future strategic gender needs should not be underestimated. -- extreme poverty ; asset transfer …
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We review the empirical evidence on the impact of microcredit on poverty in Bangladesh. Drawing on evidence from seven … empirical studies with 306 estimates, we examine the impact of microcredit on three proxies of poverty - income, assets and …
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This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …
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This paper assesses the impact on the poor of the economic reforms undertaken in Bangladesh under Fund-supported structural adjustment programs. It finds that program-induced changes in production, employment, and incomes have benefitted the poor, while the adverse impact of program-induced...
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The challenges associated with poverty measurement within an axiomatic framework, especially with cardinal variables … meaningfully assess poverty with ordinal variables, capturing the depth of deprivations. In this paper, we first propose a class of … additively decomposable ordinal poverty measures and provide an axiomatic characterisation using a set of basic foundational …
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