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Shocks, vulnerability and income generating capacity of rural households : evidence from Southeast Asia
Bühler, Dorothee; Cunningham, Wendy V. - 2018
Against the background of rising weather risks this paper seeks to understand how risks impact the income generating capacity of rural households in Southeast Asia. In this study, we use assets to predict households' income generating capacity and examine the role of different shock categories...
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Economic Development, the Nutrition Trap and Metabolic Disease
Luke, Nancy; Munshi, Kaivan; Oommen, Anu; Singh, Swapnil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
nutrition trap (but are not necessarily overweight) are at increased risk of metabolic disease. The model and the underlying … biological mechanism, which are validated with micro-data from India, Indonesia and Ghana can jointly explain inter …
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Economic Development, the Nutrition Trap and Metabolic Disease
Luke, Nancy; Munshi, Kaivan; Oommen, Anu; Singh, Swapnil - 2021
nutrition trap (but are not necessarily overweight) are at increased risk of metabolic disease. The model and the underlying … biological mechanism, which are validated with micro-data from India, Indonesia and Ghana can jointly explain inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216212
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Economic Development, Inequality and Malnutrition in India
Mukherji, Arnab - 2014
Economic development and inequality is known to have an impact on health outcomes. We show this to be true in India … where we study the effect of economic status on under and over nutrition. Inequality is measured using income or assets and … increases with age. Our results suggest that while under nutrition should remain a policy priority, rising over nutrition in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065715
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Die Welt teilen : sechs Lektionen über Gerechtigkeit
Sen, Amartya - 2020 - Originalausgabe
Der indische Ökonom und Philosoph, Nobelpreis- und Friedenspreisträger, beschreibt in sechs Lektionen, wie Gerechtigkeit in einer globalisierten Welt aussieht. Obwohl vor der Menschheit eine Herkules-Aufgabe liegt, verbreitet Amartya Sen gleichzeitig die Zuversicht, dass sie gelingen kann
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Chronic poverty and development policy in India
Mehta, Aasha K. (contributor); Shepherd, Andrew (contributor) - 2006 - 1. publ.
Correlates of incidence and exit from chronic poverty in rural India / Shashanka Bhide and Aasha Kapur Mehta -- Rural … poverty and malnutrition in India / R. Radhakrishna, K. Hanumantha Rao, C. Ravi and B. Sambi Reddy -- Chronic poverty among … casual labourers, wages and poverty : 1983 to 1999-2000 / Sheila Bhalla, Anup K. Karan and T. Shobha -- Extreme and chronic …
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Livelihoods, Poverty and Development of Adivasis : Reflections from a Village in South India
Kasi, Eswarappa - 2019
The terms ‘livelihoods', ‘poverty' and ‘development' have different meanings in different societies and people … interventions. Keeping in view the aforementioned argument, an empirical study was conducted in a tribal settlement in South India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861725
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Poverty and development : realities of grassroots
Miah, Abu Said Md. Juel (contributor) - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009739874
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Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction : The ILO Contribution to Alternative Development Thinking
Lapeyre, Frederic - 2014
The history of the ILO is characterized by a long fight to put employment at the heart of development strategies. Cautious about the limits of the growth trickle down effect, the ILO always emphasized that the economic growth objective should be reincorporated into an integrated development...
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