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district has two major tribes – Mishmi and Khamti . Findings – The authors find that children dropout of school is affected by … number of factors such as earning compulsions, household work, access to school, school time not suitable and parental … as a derivative of the major problem of abject poverty. Practical implications – By highlighting the role of appropriate …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse cost as a barrier to the uptake of antenatal care (ANC) in rural Nepal amidst a variety of barriers and facilitators. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative study with face-to-face interviews were conducted with 50 ANC users and...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of social capital in a microfinance contract. Design/methodology/approach – Systematic review of the theoretical and empirical literature on the role of social capital in microfinance. Findings – The theoretical literature has...
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people into a position of long-term poverty or serious liquidity problems. …
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We construct and derive the properties of an estimator of welfarewhich takes advantage of the detailed nature of information about living standards available in small household surveys and the comprehensive coverage of a census. By combining the strengths of each, our estimator can be used at a...
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are used to assess the ability of systems to alleviate poverty and maintain living standards, while setting out how …
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alarming with respect to economic well-being as the poverty level especially among the STs. Slow progress in expected change in …
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This chapter was originally drafted in 2007 to inform the diagnostic of Liberia’s first Poverty Reduction Strategy. It … Statistics and Geo-Information Services. The chapter estimates the level of poverty and vulnerability in the country, provides a … profile of poverty, and analyzes the household level determinants or correlates of consumption and poverty. Slightly less than …
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship Workers’ Remittances, poverty, and economic growth in Sub … models to determine the link between Remittances and poverty on the one hand, Remittances and growth on the other. Recourse … to the instrumental variables method turned out to be better for the estimation of the poverty model, while the standard …
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This module illustrates how Generalised Lorenz (GL) Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options, in many of the cases where ordinary Lorenz curves fail to work After...
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