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Unpacking a Multi-Faceted Program to Build Sustainable Income for the Very Poor

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2020

A multi-faceted program comprising a grant of productive assets, training, coaching, and savings has been found to build sustainable income for those in extreme poverty. We focus on two important questions: whether a mere grant of productive assets would generate similar impacts (it does not),...

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Financial Literacy and Consumer Financial Well-Being in Ghana : Any Nexus with Economic Stability?

Matey, Juabin - 2021

welfare of the citizenry in the country. As a result, linking household decisions to broader policy outcomes is inevitable. In … association with economic stability as measured by citizens' welfare. This discovery has several ramifications for national … participant population of 960 across eight studied regions in Ghana. Reasoning from these findings, national governments should …

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Renewables in the Energy Transition: Evidence on Solar Home Systems and Lighting-Fuel Choice in Kenya

Lay, Jann; Ondraczek, Janosch; Stoever, Jana - 2012

We study the determinants of households' choices of lighting fuels in Kenya, including the option of using solar home systems (SHSs). The paper adds new evidence on the factors that influence the introduction and adoption of decentralized and less carbon-intensive energy sources in developing...

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Vulnerability in a Stochastic Dynamic Model

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2003

to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the …

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Understanding Interhousehold Transfers in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Russia

Kuhn, Randall; Stillman, Steven - 2002

This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to describe and model the determinants of interhousehold transfers. Russian households have experienced large reductions in income during the post-Soviet transition period, with a particularly severe decline occurring in the...

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Renewables in the energy transition : evidence on solar home systems and lighting fuel choice in Kenya

Lay, Jann; Ondraczek, Janosch; Stöver, Jana - 2012

We study the determinants of households’ choices of lighting fuels in Kenya including the option of using solar home systems (SHS). Our goal is to add new evidence on the factors that influence the introduction and adoption of decentralized and less carbon-intensive energy sources in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530217

Inequality in emissions : evidence from Indonesian households

Irfany, Mohammad Iqbal - 2015

Although the literature on emission inequality is abundant, this study will differentiate itself by focusing on emission inequalities at the household level due to the disparity in household expenditure profiles. We further separate measures on emission inequality based on household...

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Vulnerability in a stochastic dynamic model

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2003 - Rev.

to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334363

Renewables in the energy transition : evidence on solar home systems and lighting-fuel choice in Kenya

Lay, Jann; Ondraczek, Janosch; Stoever, Jana - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009560790

Understanding interhousehold transfers in a transition economy : evidence from Russia

Kuhn, Randall; Stillman, Steven - 2002

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