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Income Diversification and Poverty in a Growing Agricultural Economy: The Case of Ghana

Lay, Jann; Schüler, Dana - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

This paper analyses changes in income portfolios of rural households and its determinants for the case of Ghana in the 1990s. Our analysis shows that, contrary to common beliefs, rural Ghana has seen major economic transformation, as households increasingly diversify their livelihoods by both...

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Boda-bodas rule: Non-agricultural activities and their inequality implications in Western Kenya

Lay, Jann; M'Mukaria, George Michuki; Omar Mahmoud, Toman - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

the population and would reduce poverty. Opportunity-led diversification, by contrast, would increase inequality and have … a minor effect on poverty, as it tends to be confined to non-poor households. Using data from a household survey … opportunity-led diversification. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications of the differently motivated diversification …

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Religiosity as a determinant of happiness

Opfinger, Matthias; Gundlach, Erich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes...

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Thiele, Rainer; Omar Mahmoud, Toman - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

This paper evaluates the effect of AIDS-related mortality on per-capita incomes of surviving household members, using a large nationally representative sample of rural households from Zambia. To minimize selection bias that may arise because AIDS is likely to be the endogenous outcome of...

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Education is good for the poor: a note on Dollar and Kraay

Gundlach, Erich; Navarro de Pablo, José; Weisert, Natascha - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004

income. Hence effective education policies should be an essential component of any poverty-reduction strategy. …

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Seasonal migration and networks: Evidence on Moldova's labour exodus

Görlich, Dennis; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

Seasonal migration is an ever more important phenomenon worldwide, but has received little attention in empirical research. This paper investigates the choice of seasonal versus longer-term migration on a household level. We use data from Moldova, a country that is witnessing a massive...

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