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Poverty of the Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam: Situation and Challenges from the Poorest Communes

Pham Thai, Hung; Le Dang, Trung; Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

56 percent recently. Our decomposition analysis shows that differences in characteristics could explain as much as one …

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Ethnic Minorities in Northern Mountains of Vietnam: Poverty, Income and Assets

Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This study examines the asset and income pattern of poor ethnic minorities in Northern Mountains of Vietnam using data from a 2010 Northern Mountain Baseline Survey (NMBS) of the Second Northern Mountains Poverty Reduction Project and Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) 2010. The...

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Poverty of Ethnic Minorities in the Poorest Areas of Vietnam

Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

-II areas did not decrease during 2007-2012. The decomposition analysis shows that the reduction of the poverty incidence …

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Urban Poverty and Health in Developing Countries: Household and Neighborhood Effects

Montgomery, Mark R.; Hewett, Paul C. - Economics Department, State University of New … - 2004

In the U.S. and other high-income countries, where most of the population lives in urban areas, there is intense scholarly and program interest in the effects of household and neighborhood living standards on health. Yet very few studies of developing-country cities have examined these issues....

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Poverty and postnatal depression: a systematic mapping of the evidence from low and lower middle income countries

Coast, Ernestina; Leone, Tiziana; Hirose, Atsumi; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This study systematically maps, assesses and aggregates research relating to postnatal depression (PND) and poverty in low and lower middle income countries (LLMICs). Our search of 12 databases yielded 2202 articles, of which 47 items from 17 countries were included in our mapping. We highlight...

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Poverty, Dietary Imbalance and Sickness among Casual Labourer Households in Shillong (India)

Mishra, SK; Lyngskor, JW - EconWPA - 2005

The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual labourers in Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, India. Casual labourers are those workers who work for a very short duration (for a few hours, a day or at most a few days under...

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A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This paper is a review of recent developments of parametric and non-parametric approaches to decompose inequality by subgroups, income sources, causal factors and other unit characteristics. Different methods of decomposing changes in poverty into growth, redistribution, poverty standard and...

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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency,...

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Spatial inequalities explained: evidence from Burkina Faso

Gräb, Johannes; Grimm, Michael - 2008

Empirical evidence suggests that regional disparities in incomes are often very high, that these disparities do not necessarily disappear as economies grow and that these disparities are itself an important driver of growth. We use a novel approach based on multilevel modeling to decompose the...

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Analysing the effects of tax-benefit reforms on income distribution: A decomposition approach

Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim - 2007

composition, employment level, etc.). Then, the decomposition helps to extract an absolute measure of the impact of tax … countries. Finally, the full decomposition allows quantifying the relative role of policy changes compared to all other factors …. We provide an illustration on France and Ireland and check the sensitivity of the results to the decomposition order. …

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