This paper examines the impact of the recent recession in Belarus on poverty and broader measures of household welfare … vulnerability to poverty, based on an estimated probability of falling below the national poverty threshold not exceeding 10 percent …-income households to a much greater extent, and the negative welfare effects lingered. The paper also documents that although the …

examine the impact of natural disasters on Indonesian household welfare (consumption and poverty) using the Indonesian Family … econometric models confirm that earthquakes are the most destructive disaster to affect household welfare, whereas droughts … devastating impacts of disasters and in lessening households’ vulnerability to poverty. The policy recommendations resulting from …

of fertility on household welfare at the micro level. In this paper we present an empirical analysis of the relationship … between household welfare and fertility for Indonesia - a country which has experienced unprecedented economic growth and …. Secondly, we explicitly test for the sensitivity of our results with respect to alternative measures of welfare at the …

This study provides an ex-ante analysis of the welfare effect from the improvement of border road infrastructure in … local prices of imported rice taking into consideration the simulated price changes effect on household welfare across … rural than urban households. Such policies would likely produce larger welfare gains for poorer households than richer …