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and increase household welfare by reducing poverty, especially for women and children. I also show that when the mother …
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We exploit an expansion in social protection to middle-income households to provide evidence on how middle-income households cope with economic shocks and how to build their resilience. We use a regression discontinuity design around the eligibility cutoff for a program that delivered monthly...
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In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty … reduction was especially successful. Thailand and Viet Nam are two emerging market economies where poverty rates are now below ….25 poverty line. Also, Thailand, after the economic crisis, with 19% of children underweight, is still above the World Health …
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A cash transfer programme 'Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty' has been implemented with the aim of addressing … poverty and vulnerability in Ghana. This study looks at the impact of this conditional cash transfer programme on households …
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In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses … measure the contributions of different migration streams to overall poverty change. An application to Tanzania shows the new … insights that are provided - in particular on the role of migration to secondary towns in poverty reduction. …
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Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
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Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of …
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Employment helps reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a …
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Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …
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Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … between surveys is associated with a lower probability of predicting some poverty indicators, and that a better imputation …
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