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Conflicts, Poverty and Human Development in Northern Uganda
Nannyonjo, Justine - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005033176
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Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour: Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project
Bandiera, Oriana; Elsayed, Ahmed; Heil, Anton; Smurra, … - 2022
The Jobs of the World Project is a public resource designed to enable research on jobs and poverty across and within countries over the entire development spectrum. At its core is a new data set assembled by harmonising Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and National Censuses (IPUMS) for all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470400
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Economic development and the organisation of labour : evidence from the Jobs of the World Project
Bandiera, Oriana; Elsayed, Ahmed; Heil, Anton; Smurra, … - 2022
The Jobs of the World Project is a public resource designed to enable research on jobs and poverty across and within countries over the entire development spectrum. At its core is a new data set assembled by harmonising Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and National Censuses (IPUMS) for all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013415557
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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The Experience of Afghan Households
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large … variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict across the country; surprisingly, food insecurity is not higher in conflict … conflict in the province where the household is located. We find robust evidence that households in provinces with higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552949
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Conflict, food price shocks, and food insecurity: The experience of Afghan households
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - 2012
linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large … variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict across the country; surprisingly, food insecurity is not higher in conflict … conflict in the province where the household is located. We find robust evidence that households in provinces with higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283950
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Vulnerability to poverty: Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis
Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John; … - 2016
We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580510
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Vulnerability to Poverty: Tajikistan during and after the Global Financial Crisis
Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John; … - 2017
We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607436
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Vulnerability to poverty: Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis
Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Ksennia; Lane, John Landon; … - 2016
We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011687924
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Mobilidade entre estados de pobreza e inserção no mercado de trabalho: uma análise para o Brasil metropolitano em 2004
Machado, Ana Flávia; Ribas, Rafael Perez; Penido, … - Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional … - 2007
The relation between dynamics of poverty and labor market includes some issues as what conducts certain poor groups to escape of this condition and what induces other groups to enter in the poverty. Seeking to analyze these issues, the purpose of this article is to investigate the relation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968757
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Mobility of the Chinese Urban Poor - A Case Study of Hefei City
Song, Shunfeng; Peng, Zhong-Ren; Zhu, Yi - Economics Department, University of Nevada-Reno; … - 2006
In a rapid economic development environment with rising income, escalating motorization, and growing urbanization, it is natural for government policies to focus on solving congestion related problems caused by the increased car ownership and usage. The mobility needs of the urban poor have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005426908