This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the … nationally representative longitudinal household survey on living standards with information from Nigerian mobile operators on … coverage had large and positive impacts on household consumption levels which increased over time, although at a decreasing …

of fertility on household welfare at the micro level. In this paper we present an empirical analysis of the relationship … between household welfare and fertility for Indonesia - a country which has experienced unprecedented economic growth and … score matching methods to study the relationship between fertility outcomes and economic variables at the household level …

relationship between income, household food expenditures, and household expenditures on imported rice. it is aimed at assessing how … local prices of imported rice taking into consideration the simulated price changes effect on household welfare across … household head gender and household area (rural and urban households). Results indicate that policies aiming to improve border …

between rural non-farm activities (wage and self-employment) and household welfare in rural Malawi. The paper analyzes the …-farm wage employment and non-farm self-employment are welfare improving and poverty reducing. However, households at the lower … support the promotion of the rural non-farm economy for poverty reduction purposes, they indicate that targeted interventions …

Absent actual panel household survey data, we construct for the first time synthetic panel data for more than twenty … had pro-poor growth. In particular, one third of the poor population escaped poverty during the studied period, which is … larger than the proportion of the population that fell into poverty in the same period. The region also saw a 28-percent …