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Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low COVID-19 … emerging literatures in public health and economics on the pandemic effects in Vietnam, with a specific focus on vulnerable … pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …
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Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet … data hinders analysis of poverty dynamics. We address these challenges by proposing a novel typology of FHHs and analyze …, Iraq, Jordan, Mauritania, Palestine, and Tunisia. We find that the definition of FHHs matters for measuring poverty levels …
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Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet …, previous studies have mixed results and the absence of household panel survey data hinders analysis of poverty dynamics. We … Tunisia. We find that the definition of FHHs matters for measuring poverty levels and dynamics. Most types of FHHs are less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446761
Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low COVID-19 … emerging literatures in public health and economics on the pandemic effects in Vietnam, with a specific focus on vulnerable … pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013433464
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. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its … effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine existing poverty imputation models using 14 multi-topic household … surveys conducted over the past decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam. We find that adding household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499556
. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its … effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine existing poverty imputation models using 14 multi-topic household … surveys conducted over the past decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam. We find that adding household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013546036
Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014462179
Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464639
We offer a review of methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates of poverty in contexts where … trends and dynamic patterns of poverty outcomes over time. We present the various existing methods under a common framework … data from Vietnam. Furthermore, we also offer a practical guide with detailed instructions on computer programs that can be …
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