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Can we measure resilience ? a proposed method and evidence from countries in the Sahel
Alfani, Federica; Dabalen, Andrew; Fisker, Peter; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
Although resilience has become a popular concept in studies of poverty and vulnerability, it has been difficult to obtain a credible measure of resilience. This difficulty is because the data required to measure resilience, which involves observing household outcomes over time after every...
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Sudan - social safety assessment
Kjellgren, Annika; Jones-Pauly, Christina; El-Tayeb … - World Bank Group - 2014
The Sudanese population has suffered from years of conflict, and deep-seated security issues have severely hampered Sudan’s long-term economic stability and social development. As a consequence, Sudan is struggling to meet its MDGs. Since the secessionof South Sudan, Sudan has lost a...
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Botswana social protection
Tesliuc, Cornelia; Silverio Marques, Jose; Mookodi, Lillian - World Bank Group - 2013
The report lays out options to use social safety nets to meet the goal set by the Government of Botswana to eradicate extreme poverty by 2016 and in a budget neutral way. Introducing a Family Support Grant is argued to be a more efficient way to address absolute poverty by offering a family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010828458
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The impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Ghana
Adams Jr., Richard H.; Cuecuecha, Alfredo; Page, John - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008
(from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty and inequality in Ghana. To control … inclusion of remittances. The paper also finds that both types of remittances increase income inequality in Ghana. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133706
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Migration, sorting and regional inequality : evidence from Bangladesh
Shilpi, Forhad - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008
, causing returns differences between the regions to persist. To reduce regional inequality in welfare in Bangladesh, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079914
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The demographic, economic and financial determinants of international remittances in developing countries
Adams Jr., Richard H. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008
What causes developing countries to receive different levels of international remittances? This paper addresses this question by using new data on such variables as the skill composition of migrants, poverty, and interest and exchange rates to examine the determinants of remittances. The paper...
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Economic development as opportunity equalization
Roemer, John E. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
to which total income inequality is due to differential effort, as opposed to differential circumstances. This pair of …
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Welfare dynamics measurement : two definitions of a vulnerability line and their empirical application
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter F. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Little research currently exists on a vulnerability line that distinguishes the poor population from the population that is not poor but that still faces significant risk of falling back into poverty. This paper attempts to fill this gap by proposing vulnerability lines that can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010787640
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Measuring inequality of opportunity with imperfect data : the case of Turkey
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jeremie; Aran, Meltem - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2010
The measurement of inequality of opportunity has hitherto not been attempted in a number of countries because of data … inequality is computed as a lower bound estimator of inequality of opportunity. Parametric and non-parametric estimates are … the sample of ever-married women aged 30-49 in Turkey, inequality of opportunity accounts for at least 26 percent (31 …
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Global income distribution and poverty in the absence of agricultural distortions
Bussolo, Maurizio; De Hoyos, Rafael; Medvedev, Denis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that … mild, but exhibit a strong regional pattern. Inequality is likely to fall in regions such as Latin America, which are … characterized by high initial inequality, and rise in regions like South Asia, characterized by low initial inequality. …
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