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Financial inclusion, shocks and poverty : evidence from the expansion of mobile money in Tanzania
Abiona, Olukorede; Koppensteiner, Martin Foreaux - 2018
We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with … idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and across space in an instrumented DiD methodology. We find that adopter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946908
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Material Deprivation in Selected EU Countries according to EU SILC Income Statistics
Stávková, Jana; Turčínková, Jana; Birciakova, Nada - Provozně ekonomická fakulta, Mendelova Univerzita v Brnĕ - 2012
The article focuses on issues of households at risk of poverty in a relative conception. Income poverty represents a … situation when the threshold of 0.6 of median income is not achieved. The analysis of a broader definition of poverty bases on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010883434
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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of the German Labour Market Reform
Clauss, Markus; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2008
-distribution method. Poverty and inequality decline overall, since households with children and low income gain, while those who used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297991
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Poverty, human capital, life-cycle and the tax and transfer bases: The role of education for development and international competition
Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2011
revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282647
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Beans for breakfast? How exportable is the British workfare model?
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian - 2006
Social assistance and inactivity traps have long been considered as one of the main causes of the poor employment performance of EU countries. The success of New Labour in the UK has triggered a growing interests in instruments capable of combining the promotion of responsibility and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291268
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Starke Nichtinanspruchnahme von Grundsicherung deutet auf hohe verdeckte Altersarmut
Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 86 (2019) 49, pp. 909-917
Mehr als eine halbe Million ältere Menschen in Deutschland nehmen derzeit die Grundsicherung im Alter in Anspruch - mehr als doppelt so viele wie bei ihrer Einführung im Jahr 2003. Die Dunkelziffer derer, die Anspruch auf diese Leistung hätten, sie aber nicht geltend machen, kann nur...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153243
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Starke Nichtinanspruchnahme von Grundsicherung deutet auf hohe verdeckte Altersarmut
Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 86 (2019) 49, pp. 909-917
Mehr als eine halbe Million ältere Menschen in Deutschland nehmen derzeit die Grundsicherung im Alter in Anspruch - mehr als doppelt so viele wie bei ihrer Einführung im Jahr 2003. Die Dunkelziffer derer, die Anspruch auf diese Leistung hätten, sie aber nicht geltend machen, kann nur...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139458
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Poverty, Human Capital, Life-cycle and the Tax and Transfer Bases: The Role of Education for Development and International Competition
Petersen, Hans-Georg - Lehrstuhl für Finanzwissenschaft, Wirtschafts- und … - 2011
revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323207
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Remittances, Trade Liberalisation, and Poverty in Pakistan : The Role of Excluded Variables in Poverty Change Analysis
Siddiqui, Rizwana; Kemal, A. R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
- on poverty in Pakistan using a CGE framework. It is found that tariff reduction in the absence of a decline in … remittances reduces poverty, as measured by the head count, poverty gap, and severity ratios (FGT indicators) in both the rural … year. According to all FGT indicators, poverty increases in urban households but not in rural households. The combined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363645
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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of the German Labour Market Reform
Clauss, Markus; Schnabel, Reinhold - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
-distribution method. Poverty and inequality decline overall, since households with children and low income gain, while those who used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098104