Search Results - subject:"STANDARD OF LIVING"

Investing Cash Transfers to Raise Long Term Living Standards

Gertler, Paul J. - 2016

The authors test whether poor households use cash transfers to invest in income generating activities that they otherwise would not have been able to do. Using data from a controlled randomized experiment, they find that transfers from the Oportunidades program to households in rural Mexico...

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Micro-Level Estimation of Welfare

Lanjouw, Peter - 2016

The authors construct and derive the properties of estimators of welfare that take advantage of the detailed information about living standards available in small household surveys and the comprehensive coverage of a census or large sample. By combining the strengths of each, the estimators can...

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Growth, Distribution, and Poverty in Africa : Messages from the 1990s

Christiaensen, Luc J. - 2016

Christiaensen, Demery, and Paternostro review recent evidence on the trends in household well-being in Africa during the 1990s. They draw on the findings of a series of studies on poverty dynamics that use the better data sets now available. The authors begin by taking a broad view of poverty,...

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Picking the Poor : Indicators for Geographic Targeting in Peru

Schady, Norbert Rüdiger - 2016

A revised version was published as Picking the Poor: Indicators for Geographic Targeting in Peru. The Review of Income and Wealth 48 (3, September): 417-33, 2002.Geographic targeting of social programs to the poor has become increasingly important in Peru. The potential payoffs of such targeting...

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El NiñO or El Peso? Crisis, Poverty, and Income Distribution in the Philippines

Datt, Gaurav - 2016

In terms of its impact on poverty, the recent economic crisis in the Philippines was more of an El Nintilde;o phenomenon than a financial crisis. Using household survey data for 1998, Datt and Hoogeveen assess the distributional impact of the recent economic crisis in the Philippines. The results...

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Sources of Ethnic Inequality in Vietnam

Van de Walle, Dominique - 2016

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Gainers and Losers from Trade Reform in Morocco

Ravallion, Martin - 2016

Ravallion and Lokshin use Morocco's national survey of living standards to measure the short-term welfare impacts of prior estimates of the price changes attributed to various trade policy reforms for cereals - the country's main foodstaple. They find small impacts on mean consumption and...

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The Evolution of Poverty and Inequality in Indian Villages

Lanjouw, Peter - 2016

Continued agricultural growth and diversification into nonagricultural activities are essential if India is to continue reducing rural poverty. But policymakers hoping to alleviate rural poverty must also be aware of the causes and implications of persisting, if not increasing, inequality within...

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Income Inequality, Welfare, and Poverty : An Illustration Using Ukrainian Data

Kakwani, Nanak - 2016

The standard of living in Ukraine increased significantly in the 1980s, and income inequality declined. But in 1991 … management policies, which entail lowering the population's standard of living. To design policies that protect the poorest and … satisfactory, so Kakwani's findings are only tentative. Among them:- The standard of living increased significantly in the late …

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Has Agricultural Trade Liberalization Improved Welfare in the Least-Developed Countries? Yes

Ingco, Merlinda D. - 2016

Most of the gains from multilateral liberalization come from the countries' own liberalization efforts. Least-developed countries that failed to liberalize their trade policy lost the opportunity for gains that the Uruguay Round made possible.Ingco evaluates the progress in agricultural...

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