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This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty variations into …
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This paper discusses the determinants of firewood consumption in a poor township in rural northern China, with a … poverty-environment hypothesis since household economic wealth is a significant and negative determinant of firewood …
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This paper shows the evolution of poverty in Vietnam during the deepening of trade liberalization and examines the …), diversification in self-employed non-farm activities appears to have been efficient at alleviating poverty. Moreover, the import …-competing sectors (in industry and in agriculture) play also a positive role in poverty alleviation. The latter channel could be …
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samples of patients surveyed in the same regions, but with an interval of 18 years in rural China and with mixed logit to deal …
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During the 2003-2006 period, subjective health status in Chinese rural areas improved. We used a unique household longitudinal survey to analyze how the introduction of a public insurance system has contributed to the change. This program is based on a doubly voluntary process: counties decide...
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quartiles in rural China. We use data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey for the 2006 wave and we run an ordinary least …
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rural China, by paying particularattention to the decision to plant trees as competing with agriculture. The evidence …
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structure in rural China by providing a comparative analysis of several villages in a poor township in Beijing municipality. Two …
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Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression andpanel data from household … poverty rate, albeit at a small magnitude. …
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This paper studies the link between migration, remittances and productive assets accumulation for a panel of poor rural households in Mexico over the period 1997- 2006. In a context of financial markets imperfections, migration may act as a substitute for imperfect credit and insurance provision...
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