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Deprivation and the Dimnensionality of Welfare: A Variable-Selection Cluster-Analysis Approach

Caruso, Germán; Sosa-Escudero, Walter; Svarc, Marcela - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2011

In this paper we tackle the problems of dimensionality of welfare and that of identifying the multidimensionally poor by first finding the poor using the original space of attributes, and then reducing the welfare space. The starting point is the notion that the ‘poor’ constitutes a group of...

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Estimating Vulnerability to Poverty using Panel data: Evidence from Indonesia

Bah, Adama - HAL - 2014

Traditional poverty measures fail to indicate the degree of risk of becoming or remaining poor that households are … confronted to. They can therefore be misleading in the context of implementing poverty reduction policies. In this paper I … propose a method to estimate an index of ex ante vulnerability to poverty, defined as the probability of being poor in the …

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Social Protection for Poverty Reduction in Times of Crisis

ASSIMAIDOU, Kossi; KIENDREBEOGO, Youssouf; TALL, Abdoulaye - HAL - 2013

on poverty to explore the poverty-reducing role of social protection during financial crises. Using advanced panel data … techniques to deal with endogeneity issues, we find that financial crises are associated with slower reductions in the poverty … headcount and the poverty gap. Crises lead to 526,400-555,000 additional poor people and to an increase of 4.7-10.6 percentage …

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Use of health care among the urban poor in Africa: Does the neighbourhood have an impact?

KONE, Georges; Lalou, Richard; Audibert, Martine; … - HAL - 2013

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the relative influence of neighbourhood and individual practices of care utilization in Dakar (Senegal). The data from a research program on urban malaria, made in Dakar, Senegal between 2008 and 2009. The sample was based on a two-stage sampling. A...

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Finding the Best Indicators to Identify the Poor

Bah, Adama - HAL - 2014

Proxy-means testing (PMT) is a method used to assess household or individual welfare level based on a set of observable indicators. The accuracy, and therefore usefulness of PMT relies on the selection of indicators that produce accurate predictions of household welfare. In this paper I propose...

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Estimating the Value and Distributional Effects of Free State Schooling

Andreou, Sofia; Koutsampelas, Christos; Pashardes, Panos - University of Cyprus Department of Economics - 2014

and anti-poverty effects of state education are illustrated. …

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Pathways for redistribution: privatisation, regulation and incentives for pro-poor investment in the Argentine water sector

Post, Alison E. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 4 (2009) 1/2, pp. 51-75

Recent studies of the effectiveness of privatisation programmes in the water and sanitation sector have highlighted the diversity of experiences, especially with respect to the distributional consequences of reforms. This study of water and sanitation privatisation programmes in the city and...

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Poverty and Transitions in Health

Adena, Maja; Myck, Michal - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of … poor material conditions such as subjective poverty or low relative value of wealth significantly increase the probability … analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …

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Swaziland

Manyatsi, Absalom M.; Thomas, Timothy S.; Masarirambi, … - In: Southern African agriculture and climate change: A …

The Kingdom of Swaziland covers an area of 17,364 square kilometers bordered on the north, west, and south by the Republic of South Africa and on the east by Mozambique. The two major towns or cities are Mbabane, the capital city, and Manzini. The 2007 census put the population at 1.02 million,...

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Hachigonta, Sepo; Nelson, Gerald C.; Thomas, Timothy S.; … - In: Southern African agriculture and climate change: A …

According to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Le Treut et al. 2007, 96), climate is defined as average weather over a period of time, ranging from months to millions of years. Climate is usually described in terms of the mean and variability...

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