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growth in rural India. This paper attempts to fill this lacuna by providing certainty equivalent growth of consumption in 14 … major states of India over the period 1958-1997, corresponding to NSS Rounds 13th to 53rd. The extant debates around poverty … that certainty equivalent consumption growth in rural India has been much lower than average real per capita consumption …
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Using ARIS/REDS data set for 2006 for rural India this paper models household vulnerability as expected utility and its …
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This paper presents evidence on the effects of access to domestic and international markets on per capita consumption of households using data from rural China. The econometric analysis uses alternative identification schemes to address the potential endogeneity of access to markets. We use...
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India. The treated respondents save actively into the account and their individual savings increase. There is, however, no …
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Radical economic reform programs initiated in India have led to a sharp rise in the trend rate of growth for India …'s economy. The rapid economic growth and socio-economic developments in India have boosted the country's consumption of many …, consumption of paper and paperboard in India will accelerate. The paper industry of India has however not been able fully to meet …
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This paper examines the impact of access to markets on livestock-related income of herder households in Mongolia. The empirical findings show that reducing the distance to markets by ten kilometers increases household income by 1.0 percent on average.
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This paper revisits the debate over the importance of absolute vs. relative income as a correlate of subjective well-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We do so by combining household data with...
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This paper discusses the determinants of firewood consumption in a poor township in rural Northern China, with a special focus on the relationship between households’ economic wealth and fuelwood consumption. We find strong support for the poverty-environment hypothesis since household...
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