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Low Malnutrition but High Mortality: Explaining the Paradox of the Lake Victoria Region

Priebe, Jan; Gräb, Johannes - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2009

Exploiting DHS data from 235 regions in 29 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, we find that the combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the causes...

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Income Diversification and Poverty in a Growing Agricultural Economy: The Case of Ghana

Lay, Jann; Schüler, Dana - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2008

This paper analyses changes in income portfolios of rural households and its determinants for the case of Ghana in the 1990s. Our analysis shows that, contrary to common beliefs, rural Ghana has seen major economic transformation, as households increasingly diversify their livelihoods by both...

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The Causal Relationship between Corruption and Poverty: A Panel Data Analysis

Negin, Vahideh; Abd Rashid, Zakariah; Nikopour, Hesam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Most of the studies which have investigated the link between corruption and poverty may draw conclusions on causality … between corruption and poverty. It uses dynamic panel system GMM estimators, focuses on capability poverty using human poverty … corruption and poverty go together, with bidirectional causality. …

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Welfare Impacts of Food Price Inflation in Ethiopia

Klugman, Jeni; Loening, Josef - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In Ethiopia, changes in the prices of teff, wheat and maize tend to affect more the people at the higher income quintile in rural areas, while in urban areas they tend to affect those at the lower income quintiles. The hike in relative prices from 2006-2007 has increased the urban cost of living...

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The Intergenerational Dynamics of Social Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Europe and the United States

Eberharter, Veronika V. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

determinants of intergenerational income mobility and the relative risk of poverty differ with respect to the existing welfare … the relative risk of poverty. …

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The Evolution of Poverty in the European Union: Concepts, Measurement and Data

Decancq, Koen; Goedemé, Tim; Van den Bosch, Karel; … - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2013

This paper considers the measurement of poverty in the European Union (EU). Starting from a definition of poverty that …-Greer-Thorbecke class of poverty measures. Three key issues need to be addressed in the measurement of poverty. First, one has to determine … persons are considered to be poor. Third, it is necessary to outline an aggregation procedure to attain a poverty figure for …

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The Paradox of the Social Investment State. Growth, Employment and Poverty in the Lisbon Era

Cantillon, Bea - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2011

After the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, on the eve of the elaboration of policies designed … to help reach the Europe 2020 target of lifting 20 million people out of poverty, it is important to take stock of the … incomes and of employment, poverty rates have not gone down, but have either stagnated or even increased. In this paper we …

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Disappointing poverty trends : is the social investment state to blame? An exercise in soul-searching for policy-makers

Vandenbroucke, Frank; Vleminckx, Koen - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2011

the literature on new risks in post-industrial societies. We then discuss two explanations for disappointing poverty …

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Disambiguating Lisbon. Growth, Employment and Social Inclusion in the Investment State

Cantillon, Bea - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2010

Over half way into the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, on the eve of the elaboration of … policies designed to help reach the Europe 2020 target of lifting 20 million people out of poverty, it is important to take … growth of average incomes and of employment, poverty rates have not gone down, but have either stabilized or even increased …

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The standard error of estimates based on EU-SILC. An exploration through the Europe 2020 poverty indicators

Goedemé, Tim - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2010

of the Europe 2020 strategy. All too often this has been neglected in European poverty research and official publications … presenting results for the official Europe 2020 poverty indicators. It is shown that neglecting the sample design can lead to a …

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