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Connections and the allocation of public benefits

Newman, Carol; Zhang, Mengyang - 2015

We explore the relationship between connections and public transfers in decentralized poverty-targeting programmes …. Using panel data from Vietnam we find evidence that households with connections to local government are more likely to be … identify provision of information as a mechanism through which households use their connections to obtain the poverty …

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Information, identification, or neither? Experimental evidence on role models in Viet Nam

Narciso, Gaia; Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn - 2018

How can development programmes reach out to remote communities? This paper presents experimental evidence on the impact of a role models intervention that aims to inspire ethnic minority households to start businesses and diversify income sources. The experiment took place in three provinces of...

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Children and the youth in rural Viet Nam

Narciso, Gaia; Newman, Carol - 2015

Structural transformation in rural Viet Nam has led to rising incomes and a diversification of livelihoods away from agriculture. Using panel data on children in 2,181 rural households surveyed over the 2008-14 period, we examine how the welfare of children has been impacted by structural...

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Conflict and entrepreneurial activity in Afghanistan: Findings from the national risk vulnerability assessment data

Ciarli, Tommaso; Parto, Saeed; Savona, Maria - 2010

The paper examines the relationship between conflict and entrepreneurial activity in Afghanistan, drawing upon a unique data set, the National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment household survey 2005. Afghanistan is severely underdeveloped and poor. Conflict has persisted in vast swathes of the...

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A human rights-consistent approach to multidimensional welfare measurement applied to sub-Saharan Africa

Arndt, Channing; Mahrt, Kristi; Hussain, M. Azhar; … - 2017

Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Progress is frequently measured using the multidimensional poverty index. While elegant … and useful, the multidimensional poverty index is in reality inconsistent with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights … consistency with basic principles, discuss the properties of the multidimensional poverty index and first-order dominance, and …

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What's behind pro-poor growth? The role of shocks and measurement error

Klasen, Stephan; Lo Bue, Maria C.; Prete, Vincenzo - 2020

Standard growth incidence curves describe how growth episodes impact on the overall income distribution. However, measuring the pro-poorness of the growth process is complex due to (i) measurement errors and (ii) effect shocks that may hit the percentiles of the income distribution in different...

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Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory

Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - 2012

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated … based on equivalent income. These differences are illustrated using household-level panel data from Russia and Vietnam. …