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A Multidimensional Approach to Poverty that Strengthens the Humanitarian-Development Nexus

Lyons, Angela; Kass-Hanna, Josephine; Molena, Elisa - 2021

The recent COVID-19 pandemic and the expected increase in global crises threaten to push millions into poverty. Enhanced collaboration between humanitarian and development actors is critical to responding effectively and holistically to the needs of the world’s most vulnerable persons. As...

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A Machine Learning Approach to Targeting Humanitarian Assistance Among Forcibly Displaced Populations

Lyons, Angela; Montoya Castano, Alejandro; Kass-Hanna, … - 2023

Increasing trends in forced displacement and poverty are expected to intensify in coming years. Data science approaches can be useful for governments and humanitarian organizations in designing more robust and effective targeting mechanisms. This study applies machine learning techniques and...

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China's Urban Poor Comparing Twice Poverty between Residents and Migrants in 2013 and 2018

Gustafsson, Björn; Sai, Ding - 2023

Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural hukou holders living in urban China and urban hukou holders. People living in households with an income below a fixed percent of the median per-capita income and wealth below the...

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China's urban poor : comparing twice poverty between residents and migrants in 2013 and 2018

Gustafsson, Björn; Ding, Sai - 2023

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Neighborhood Decline and the Economic Crisis

Zwiers, Merle - 2015

Neighborhood decline is a complex and multidimensional process. National and regional variation in economic and political structures (including variety in national welfare state arrangements), combined with differences in neighborhood history, development and population composition, makes it...

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Simulating the future of the Swedish baby-boom generations

Klevmarken, N. Anders; Bolin, Kristian; Eklöf, Matias; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007

For the purpose of studying the consequences of the ageing of the Swedish population a group of scientists have enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement,...

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Neighbourhood Child Poverty in Sweden

Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of neighbourhoods with high child poverty rates is much … larger in 2002 than in 1990, but also that most poor children in the three regions live outside poor neighbourhoods. A … disproportionally large fraction of children with backgrounds from low- and middle-income countries live in poor neighbourhoods …

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A Note on Remittances in El Salvador and Ecuador: An Analysis of Household Survey Data

Clayton, Jessica Audrey; Warin, Thierry - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2010

This study analyzes the impact of remittances as seen in household survey data from three small rural communities. OLS and multivariate anova regressions were used to analyze household survey data collected in Cumbe and Gualaceo (Ecuador) and in Ciudad Romero (El Salvador). The results...

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Prospects of Non-Farm Employment and Welfare in Rural Areas

Kaur, Simrit; Kulkarni, Vani S.; Gaiha, Raghav; Pandey, … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

Employment elasticity with respect to agriculture value added in South Asia has weakened in recent years. While crop diversification has grown and value added per hectare also grew, employment growth was sluggish. However, the linkages between farm and non-farm employment remain strong. Drawing...

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Migration’s Income and Poverty Impact

Schiff, Maurice - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2006

In estimating the impact of migration on income and poverty, existing studies have typically overlooked the fact that migration changes the size of the household. The ‘corrected’ impact that takes the change in household size into account is presented analytically and is estimated on the...

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