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Agricultural Policy Reforms and Food Poverty Dynamics in Cote d'Ivoire

Arsène, Kouadio - 2013

The main objective of this paper is to show how relevant is the incentive policy to agricultural investments for food poverty reduction towards agricultural households. The data used for this study are from the 1985-1988 CI-LSMS and the 1998 National Statistics Institute's Household Surveys. We...

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Micro Water Harvesting for Climate Change Mitigation : Trade-Offs between Health and Poverty Reduction in Northern Ethiopia

Hagos, Fitsum Gebre; Yohannes, Mekonnen; Linderhof, Vincent - 2009

the trade-offs between health and poverty reduction by considering the impacts of water harvesting on health in Tigray … to elicit households’ WTP for improved health services to control malaria. With interval regression, the WTP was … explained as a function of household characteristics, health and health service conditions, and village level factors. The …

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The Evolution Of Education And Health Poverty During Economic Development:The Case Of Indonesia, 1991–2007

Sumner, Andy - Center for Economics and Development Studies, Fakultas … - 2013

This paper discusses the evolution of education and health poverty in Indonesia during a period of substantial economic … development. The paper reviews the existing empirical research and provides new estimates of the evolution of education and health … poverty using the Demographic and Health Survey. The case of Indonesia suggests that poverty may urbanize but remains largely …

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What is Middle Class About the Middle Classes Around the World?

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - 2008

This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education …

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Disability, Health and Human Development

Mitra, Sophie - 2018

This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and … employment. It shows that disability needs to be considered from multiple angles including aging, gender, health and poverty … impairments and health conditions …

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Does Hotter Temperature Increase Poverty? Global Evidence from Subnational Data Analysis

Dang, Hai-Anh; Trinh, Trong-Anh - 2022

Despite a vast literature documenting the negative effects of climate change on various socio-economic outcomes, little, if any, evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher...

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Does Hotter Temperature Increase Poverty? Global Evidence from Subnational Data Analysis

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Trinh, Trong-Anh - 2022

Despite a vast literature documenting the negative effects of climate change on various socio-economic outcomes, surprisingly hardly any evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher...

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Does hotter temperature increase poverty? : global evidence from subnational data analysis

Dang, Hai-Anh; Trinh, Trong-Anh - 2022

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Global income distribution and poverty : implications from the IPCC SRES scenarios

Calzadilla, Alvaro - 2010

The Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) has been widely used to analyze climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation. The storylines behind these scenarios outline alternative development pathways, which have been the base for climate research and other studies at global,...

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Microfinance and Poverty -A Macro Perspective

Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav; Thapa, Ganesh; Annim, … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2010

Building on the recent literature on finance, growth and hunger, we have examined the experience of Asian countries over the last five decades, using dynamic panel models. Although the results are mixed, depending on the specification and variables used, there is some evidence favouring a...

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