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Methodological review and revision of the global hunger index
Wiesmann, Doris; Biesalski, Hans-Konrad - 2015
the population that is calorie deficient (FAO's prevalence of undernourishment); the prevalence of underweight in children … the prevalence of child underweight for the child undernutrition dimension, the use of the under-five mortality rate from … analyses with indicators of micronutrient deficiencies, the index is revised as follows: (1) The child underweight indicator is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346204
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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002
There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262781
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Does globalisation increase child labour?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002
There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410919
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Strategic Remittances of International Migrants
Zhu, Heng - 2021
Motives for remittance transfers and recipient’s subsequent use of remittance income is a widely researched topic in the economics of migration literature. However, choices over the format in which migrants send remittance is ill understood. Decisions over remittance transfers involve more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238875
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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2021
There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320572
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Global income distribution and poverty: Implications from the IPCC SRES scenarios
Calzadilla, Alvaro - 2010
The Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) has been widely used to analyze climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation. The storylines behind these scenarios outline alternative development pathways, which have been the base for climate research and other studies at global,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272101
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Miserly developments
Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove - 2008
In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz curve, but can also be seen as a measure of polarization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275899
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Miserly developments
Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove - 2008
In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz curve, but can also be seen as a measure of polarization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808963
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Global income distribution and poverty : implications from the IPCC SRES scenarios
Calzadilla, Alvaro - 2010
The Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) has been widely used to analyze climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation. The storylines behind these scenarios outline alternative development pathways, which have been the base for climate research and other studies at global,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008736186
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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2016 - (revised in April 2016)
We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The current benchmark version of the dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453984