This paper examines the impacts of international remittances on household consumption expenditure and poverty in … Bangladesh using computable general equilibrium modeling of the Bangladesh economy and microeconometric analysis at the household … household group levels, while the latter shows the association between remittances and household consumption expenditure …

We investigate the relationship between the individual and household indirect utility functions in the context of a … collective household model. Our analysis produces new results that explain how the rule governing the distribution of resources … among household members is related to the measurement of household welfare and intra-household inequality. We show that in a …

Eswatini has notably high levels of poverty and inequality. Recurrent, negative shocks are an important contributing … household survey data. It examines the coverage rates of these programs, and their incidence and effectiveness in reducing … poverty and inequality. The study also examines the association between program participation and negative shocks reported by …

This study brief on "Social Assistance Programs and Household Welfare in Eswatini" examines the performance of Eswatini …

This study examines the impact of the Sierra Leone civil war on household expenditure inequality. The paper exploits … three rounds of household survey data for Sierra Leone in an attempt to estimate the impact of the conflict on the … distribution of household welfare over both short-run and long-run periods. The empirical approach uses RIF measures based on the …