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of aid and remittance inflows in the mitigation of the effects of food price shocks in the recipient economies. Using a … the instability of household consumption in highly vulnerable countries. Second, remittance and aid inflows significantly … in order to fully absorb the effects of food price shocks compared to the corresponding aid-to-GDP ratio. …
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of aid and remittance inflows in the mitigation of the effects of food price shocks in the recipient economies. Using a … the instability of household consumption in highly vulnerable countries. Second, remittance and aid inflows significantly … in order to fully absorb the effects of food price shocks compared to the corresponding aid-to-GDP ratio. …
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vulnerability. This is achieved by using Hicksian price Compensating Variation (CV) and compensated price elasticities, based on …
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propose a method to estimate an index of ex ante vulnerability to poverty, defined as the probability of being poor in the … generates a vulnerability index, or predicted probability of future poverty, which performs well in predicting future poverty …, including out of sample. About 80% of households with a 2000 vulnerability index of 100% are actually poor in 2007. This …
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propose a method to estimate an index of ex ante vulnerability to poverty, defined as the probability of being poor in the … generates a vulnerability index, or predicted probability of future poverty, which performs well in predicting future poverty …, including out of sample. About 80% of households with a 2000 vulnerability index of 100% are actually poor in 2007. This …
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examine the concept of vulnerability, defined as the possibility that future levels of consumption may be below the poverty … explaining the incidence of poverty in Cartagena. However, vulnerability is greater than poverty itself, so that most of the city …
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There is increasing recognition that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are an important international and development issue globally, undermining health gains and imposing financial and economic costs on governments and households. NCDs are an important health challenge in the Pacific. First,...
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Cross?country econometric studies of aid effectiveness are numerous and often criticized. Relying on results of those … which seem the most relevant and robust, this paper argues that aid is leading to poverty reduction, in particular in … vulnerable countries. It examines the main methodological challenges faced by these studies, related to the definition aid, to …
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Cross-country econometric studies of aid effectiveness are numerous and often criticized. Relying on results of those … which seem the most relevant and robust, this paper argues that aid is leading to poverty reduction, in particular in … vulnerable countries. It examines the main methodological challenges faced by these studies, related to the definition aid, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011187622