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Migration and economic mobility in Tanzania : evidence from a tracking survey
Beegle, Kathleen - 2008
"This study explores the extent to which migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania. Using longitudinal data on individuals, the authors estimate the impact of migration on consumption growth between 1991 and 2004. The analysis addresses concerns about...
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Local institutions, poverty and household welfare in Bolivia
Grootaert, Christiaan - 2001
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Household welfare and poverty dynamics in Burkina Faso : empirical evidence from household surveys
Fofack, Hippolyte - 2001
The benefits from growth following devaluation of the CFA franc in Burkina Faso in 1994 were undermined by increasing income inequality. Factors that fed that growth in income inequality: disparities in wages and in educational attainment and unequal access to productive assets
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524043
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El Niño or el peso? : crisis, poverty and income distribution in the Philippines
Datt, Gaurav - 2000
In terms of its impact on poverty, the recent economic crisis in the Philippines was more of an El Niño phenomenon than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524258
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Social capital, household welfare and poverty in Indonesia
Grootaert, Christiaan - 1999
It pays for poor households to participate actively in local associations. At low incomes, the returns to social capital are higher than returns to human capital. At higher incomes, the reverse is true
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Income inequality, welfare, and poverty : an illustration using Ukrainian data
Kakwani, Nanak - 1995
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Poverty, AIDS, and children's Schooling
Ainsworth, Martha - 2002
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Fever and its treatment among the more and less poor in Sub-Saharan Africa
Filmer, Deon - 2002
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Socioeconomic inequalities in child malnutrition in the developing world
Wagstaff, Adam - 2000
Despite the development community's shift in emphasis toward the poor, malnutrition, like other dimensions of poor health, is concentrated among the worst off. Yet targets are still defined in terms of population averages. Consider, then, this information about malnutrition rates among different...
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Cognitive development among young children in Ecuador : the roles of wealth, health and parenting
Paxson, Christina H. - 2005
, and parenting quality in a developing country. They use a sample of over 3,000 predominantly poor pre-school age children … for older than younger children, and there is greater dispersion in scores among older children. They find that household … socioeconomic characteristics, in particular wealth and parental education, are "protective"-children from wealthier households with …
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