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Spending to Save? State Health Expenditure and Infant Mortality in India

Bhalotra, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

There are severe inequalities in health in the world, poor health being concentrated amongst poor people in poor countries. Poor countries spend a much smaller share of national income on health expenditure than do richer countries. What potential lies in political or growth processes that raise...

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An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries

Dang, Thai-Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....

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Growing out of Poverty: Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002

Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

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Reporting Bias in Studies of the Food Stamp Program

Meyer, Bruce; Sullivan, James - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - 2008

Benefit receipt in major household surveys is often underreported. This understatement has major implications for our understanding of the economic circumstances of disadvantaged populations and the distributional effects of government programs. This paper examines underreporting of food stamps...

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The end of decent social protection for the poor? The dynamics of low wages, minimum income packages and median household incomes

Cantillon, Bea; Collado, Diego; Van Mechelen, Natascha - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2015

-poor households with children fall short compared to the poverty threshold (defined as 60% of equivalised median household income … household incomes. This points at severe and increasing structural difficulties to reduce poverty. …

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Public investment in irrigation and training for an agriculture-led development: a CGE approach for Ethiopia

Mitik, Lulit; Engida, Ermias - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2013

-led development, on food security, and on poverty in Ethiopia. It is line with the current five year development strategy of the … detain while reducing the share of unskilled labor. The same applies for land. Finally, the model has a poverty module using … and is calibrated to a SAM of Ethiopia for the fiscal year 2005/06. The poverty module uses the 2005 Household Income and …

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Does non-farm sector employment reduce rural poverty and vulnerability? Evidence from Vietnam and India

Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav; Thapa, Ganesh - In: Journal of Asian Economics 36 (2015) C, pp. 47-61

The present study examines whether rural non-farm employment has any poverty and/or vulnerability-reducing effect in … the rural non-farm employment in both Vietnam and India – which is consistent with its poverty reducing role of accessing … risks. When we disaggregate non-farm sector employment by its type, we find that poverty and vulnerability reducing effects …

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Governing the transition to natural gas in Mediteranean Metropolis: The case of Cairo, Istanbul and Sfax (Tunisia)

Verdeil, Éric; Arik, Elvan; Bolzon, Hugo; Markoum, Jimmy - In: Energy Policy 78 (2015) C, pp. 235-245

Recent scholarship on urban energy governance has focused on low carbon energy strategies seen as a response to climate change and energy pressure threats. But such approaches tend to overlook the situations of cities from the Global South and emerging countries concerned with strong energy...

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Material hardship in families with children with health conditions: Implications for practice

Stoddard-Dare, Patricia; DeRigne, LeaAnne; Quinn, Linda M. - In: Children and Youth Services Review 49 (2015) C, pp. 11-19

Cross-sectional data from the third wave of a ten-year data collection initiative were used to assess the odds of experiencing four material hardships between families who have a child member with a limiting health condition, and families with children who do not have a child member with a...

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Limited Income Mobility in Korea

Oh, Hyungna; Choi, Yun Jeong - Economic Research Institute, College of Business and … - 2014

, and the existence of senior poverty, this paper calls for policies to support citizens suffering from illness, family …

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