Showing 1 - 10 of 114,299
The conflict between the income based and nutrition based estimates of poverty is a widely debated issue in economic … function can reconcile the conflict between the two measures of poverty. In addition, a simple general equilibrium model using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323236
The development of the small and medium enterprise sector is believed to be crucial for economic growth and poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487312
Slow agricultural development has restrained economic growth and poverty alleviation in Cambodia. The country … impact of access to land on poverty in a logistic regression framework using household survey data. Increased access to land … is shown to significantly lower the risk of household poverty. Tenure security, land improvements and irrigation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644846
This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education investments, employment patterns and other features of the of the economic lives of the middle classes defined as those whose daily consumption per capita is between $2 and $4 or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221786
from Bangladesh and Mexico, and use the model estimates to compute poverty rates for men, women, and children. Contrary to … existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389002
female-headed households are poorer than male-headed households. Poverty is also found to be more prevalent in rural areas …, in households whose heads are illiterate, and in households whose heads work in the informal sector. As for poverty … dynamics, the results show that poverty decreased in Cameroon between 1996 and 2001. Despite the fact that some results are the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212975
The existing literature on poverty has discussed about the conflict between income-based measure and nutrition … status driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income based and nutrition based measures of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323226
from Bangladesh and Mexico, and use the model estimates to compute poverty rates for men, women, and children. Contrary to … existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497849
COVARIATES OF EFFICIENCY IN EDUCATION PRODUCTION AMONG DEVELOPING PACIFIC- BASIN AND LATIN-AMERICAN COUNTRIES
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005574193
crucial for equitable growth and poverty reduction. Enhanced female employment and income also contribute to better priority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005574196