RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … effect of the price shock on household welfare through consumption and wage incomes. Poor rural households suffer significant … are greater among urban households. However, more poor people in India live in villages, so rural poverty impacts are …

We investigate the relationship between the individual and household indirect utility functions in the context of a … collective household model. Our analysis produces new results that explain how the rule governing the distribution of resources … among household members is related to the measurement of household welfare and intra-household inequality. We show that in a …

This paper examines the impacts of international remittances on household consumption expenditure and poverty in … Bangladesh using computable general equilibrium modeling of the Bangladesh economy and microeconometric analysis at the household … household group levels, while the latter shows the association between remittances and household consumption expenditure …

Using a nationally representative household survey data set from Ghana, this paper provides empirical evidence … regarding the role of financial inclusion or financial exclusion in household welfare. We first compute a multidimensional index … of financial inclusion, and then we examine the effect of financial inclusion on household welfare. The study finds that …