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. Finally, remittances contribute to poverty reduction – especially through their direct effects. Migration and remittances are …
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We perform development accounting in accordance with Weil (2005, 2007) in a cross-state analysis of India. Results of similar magnitude are found, demonstrating that health can account for 1% to 18% of income differences depending on the health measure.
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program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty …
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This paper studies the eect of a sharp rice price increase on welfare and poverty in Bangladesh. We employ household … that higher rice prices either increase or decrease the poverty head-count ratio, depending on the choice of the poverty … line. However, if we consider the per capita income gap as a measure of poverty, we always observe that higher rice prices …
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The alleviation of poverty has been the prime objective of small-scale targeted credit programs such as the Grameen … Bank of Bangladesh. Based on household survey data, this paper concludes that these programs can play an important role in … both lesing poverty and sustaining household welfare on a long-term basis. …
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The alleviation of poverty has been the prime objective of small-scale targeted credit programs such as the Grameen … Bank of Bangladesh. Based on household survey data, this paper concludes that these programs can play an important role in … both lesing poverty and sustaining household welfare on a long-term basis. …
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This study investigates the role of public infrastructure investment on economic growth and poverty reduction in the … positively impacts real GDP, but also reduces poverty and inequality in the short and long run. In this context, the Philippine …
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program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty …
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This paper assesses the impact on the poor of the economic reforms undertaken in Bangladesh under Fund …
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program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty …
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