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The vulnerability aspect of happiness : the European middle class perspective

Benczúr, Péter; Kvedaras, Virmantas - 2023

European countries. Using the special module of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions micro-data on … importance of income vulnerability for the middle class is on a par with (or even greater than) economic factors such as severe … the lower income bound of the middle class (75% of the national median income) and not the poverty line (60% of the median …

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Wider economic benefits of investments in transport corridors and the role of complementary policies

Melecký, Martin; Sharma, Siddharth; Subhash, Hari - 2018

This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare, social inclusion, and environmental quality. The analysis uses district-level data for 1994-2011 and the difference-in-difference method. The results suggest that the highways...

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Wider Economic Benefits of Investments in Transport Corridors and the Role of Complementary Policies

Melecky, Martin - 2018

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Female-headed households and living conditions in Latin America

Liu, Chia; Esteve, Albert; Treviño, Rocío - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 90 (2017), pp. 311-328

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Understanding Vulnerability to Food Insecurity Lessons from Vulnerable Livelihood Profiling

Løvendal, Christian Romer; Knowles, Marco; Horii, Naoko - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2004

The Food Security and Agricultural Projects Analysis Unit (ESAF) of FAO has undertaken a number of pilot studies to develop a methodology for understanding why certain groups of people are vulnerable to becoming food insecure. The studies use the sustainable livelihoods approach adopted for food...

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Earnings efficiency and poverty dominance analysis: a spatial approach

Chattopadhyay, Somnath - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 3, pp. 2298-2318

The paper estimates an earnings frontier by the method of Corrected Ordinary Least Squares (COLS) and categorizes households as efficient or inefficient based on some benchmark efficiency score and the estimated frontier. The spatial distribution of the poor and non poor households is then...

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The median as watershed

Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, A B - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2013

different classes of income transfers contribute to different objectives. In particular, we examine the role of transfers that …

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Poultry production and rural poverty among small-scale farmers in Mzimba District of Malawi

Assa, Maganga - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper evaluates the role of participating in poultry production on household income and rural poverty in Mzimba … district, Malawi. The study utilizes cross-sectional farm level household data collected in 2011. The paper computes income … farmers. Thus, participating in poultry production has a significant positive impact on household income and poverty reduction. …

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The Foster–Greer–Thorbecke (FGT) poverty measures: 25 years later

Foster, James; Greer, Joel; Thorbecke, Erik - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 8 (2010) 4, pp. 491-524

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Stochastic Dominance, Poverty and the Treatment Effect Curve

Verme, Paolo - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 365-373

The paper proposes a simple framework for the evaluation of anti-poverty programs based on single means differences, FGT poverty measures and stochastic dominance theory. A Treatment Effect Curve (TEC) is derived and its use illustrated with simulated data.

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