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changes in food expenditures and prices and simulate the welfare losses from food price changes across poverty definitions. We …-poor households only to changes in beverage prices. Additionally, changes in household economic welfare due to price increases vary … according to poverty status. On average, the percentage of total income needed to avoid a loss in economic welfare of poor …
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The study evaluates the effectiveness of Iranian government subsidies for households by comparing the welfare impact of …, compensated variations (CV) welfare index was used to evaluate the effectiveness of government support payments in reducing … different scenarios. In other words, consumers are in a worse situation in terms of welfare and their expenditure increases. The …
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can be addressed from a policy standpoint. Data collected via the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) provides Ghana … with this avenue, yet the reports from them by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) neither consider the trends nor in … Ghana Living Standards Surveys (GLSS) fielded in 2005/06, 2012/13, and 2016/17. The harmonized data has the widest …
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This study uses the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System to estimate food demand among Filipino households. Our study uses the recently released 2018 Family Income and Expenditure Survey and the Stone-Lewbel price index in the absence of price data on food groups. Results show that demand for...
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We investigate the food security situation of Slovak households in terms of both access to food and quality of the diet consumed by estimating food demand system and diet diversity demand models using household budget survey data over the period 2004 - 2010. In most samples demand for meat and...
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70 percent of the rural population in sub-Saharan Africa does not use adequate sanitation facilities. In rural Benin, as much as 95 percent of the population has no access to improved sanitation. This paper explores why households remain without latrines analyzing a representative sample of 2000...
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negative and smaller in magnitude. A complementary welfare analysis shows high compensated variations in the long run, ranging …
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Households’ welfare in developing countries has been hit by dramatic food prices increases which occurred between 2005 … increase on nutritional attainments, as a measure of welfare. The analysis consists of first approximating complete food …
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This paper investigates the preference of parents for inter-child allocation of education investment in Ethiopia. It mainly focuses on the roles played by non-price factors of investment in child education. The study uses unique survey and experimental dataset disaggregated by individual...
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consumption and production can bias the final impact on household welfare. The main objective of this study is thus to develop a … robust and comprehensive tool to evaluate the effect on household welfare of different agricultural policies in Tanzania and … simulate the effect on household welfare of a hypothetical 40% increase in the price of cereals and other crops and a …
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