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Tsimpo, Clarence; Wodon, Quentin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

When assessing the impact of changes in food prices on poverty, it is important to consider food producers (who may benefit from an increase in prices) as well as consumers (who loose out when the price increases), with a focus on poor consumers and producers. In the case of rice in Liberia...

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Lokshin, Michael; Bontch-Osmolovski, Mikhail; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2007

Using two rounds of nationally representative household survey data in this study, the authors measure the impact on poverty in Nepal of local and international migration for work. They apply an instrumental variable approach to deal with nonrandom selection of migrants and simulate various...

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Making regional cooperation work for South Asia's poor

Ahmed, Sadiq; Ghani, Ejaz - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

South Asia has attracted global attention because it has experienced rapid GDP growth over the last two decades. What is not so well known is that South Asia is the least integrated region in the world. South Asia has opened its door to the rest of the world but it remains closed to its...

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Closing rural-urban MDG gaps in low-income countries : a general equilibrium perspective

Lofgren, Hans - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

This paper addresses policies aimed at closing the rural-urban gap for one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the under-five mortality rate (U5MR). The paper relies on the Maquette for MDG Simulations (MAMS), a computable general equilibrium model, applied to the database of an...

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Poverty reduction and shared prosperity in Tajikistan : a diagnostic

Azevedo, Joao Pedro; Atamanov, Aziz; Rajabov, Alisher - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

from 73 percent in 2003 to 47 percent in 2009 accompanied by falling inequality. Consumption growth of the bottom 40 …

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Subjective wellbeing in Colombia : some insights on vulnerability, job security, and relative incomes

Krauss, Alexander; Graham, Carol - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

A burgeoning literature explores the extent to which consumption or income inadequately reflect people's subjective wellbeing, just as GDP at times can provide an incomplete and misleading picture of national wellbeing. Scholars are increasingly using data on subjective wellbeing to complement...

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Gender inequality in multidimensional welfare deprivation in west Africa : the case of Burkina Faso and Togo

Agbodji, Akoete Ega; Batana, Yele Maweki; Ouedraogo, Denis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

Burkina Faso, while the reverse situation is true in Togo. Gender inequality is observed in all dimensions since women always … inequality in Burkina Faso, three dimensions (assets, access to credit, and employment) account together for most of the total … contribution to gender inequality in Togo. There is also a positive correlation between multidimensional deprivation and women …

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Household enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa : why they matter for growth, jobs, and livelihoods

Fox, Louise; Sohnesen, Thomas Pave - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012

Despite 40 percent of households relying on household enterprises (non-farm enterprises operated by a single individual or with the help of family members) as an income source, household enterprises are usually ignored in low-income Sub-Saharan-African development strategies. Yet analysis of...

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Health and civil war in rural Burundi

Bundervoet, Tom; Verwimp, Philip; Akresh, Richard - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

This paper combines household survey data with event data on the timing and location of armed conflicts to examine the impact of Burundi's civil war on children's health status. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the war's timing across provinces and the exposure of...

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Absolute poverty measures for the developing world, 1981-2004

Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2007

The authors report new estimates of measures of absolute poverty for the developing world over 1981-2004. A clear trend decline in the percentage of people who are absolutely poor is evident, although with uneven progress across regions. They find more mixed success in reducing the total number...

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