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Export Restraints on Russian Natural Gas and Raw Timber : What Are the Economic Impacts?
Tarr, David G. - 2010
Export restraints by the Russian Federation on natural gas and timber have been the source of major controversy between the European Union and the Russian Federation. The analysis of this paper suggests that the export restraints in natural gas very substantially benefit Russia. On the other...
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Pakistan Poverty Map 2019-2020
Malaga Ortega, Ramiro; Corral Rodas, Paul; Meyer, Moritz - 2025
Pakistan Social and Living Standard Measurement Survey 2019-20. This application differs from the standard small area …
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Measuring the Risk of Corruption and Its Price Impact in North Macedonia 2011-2022
Fazekas, Mihaly; Abdou, Aly; Ibrahimi, Klea; Tóth, Bence; … - 2024
Public procurement in North Macedonia amounted to 16 percent of total government expenditure in 2018, or 5 percent of gross domestic product. The country's public procurement is also vulnerable to corruption risks, which typically push prices up, leading to overspending. To support better budget...
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Unveiling Multidimensional Poverty
Robayo-Abril, Monica; Echeverria, Lucia - 2025
The European Union has improved living standards, yet welfare disparities persist across regions, countries, and demographic groups. This paper uses data from European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys and the at-risk-of-poverty or social...
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The Mismeasure of Weather
Josephson, Anna; Kilic, Talip; Michler, Jerey D.; … - 2025
paper quantifies the significance and magnitude of the effect of measurement error in Earth observation data in the context … measurement methods. The findings are not robust to the choice of Earth observation dataset, and the outcomes are not simply …
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A Poor Means Test? : Econometric Targeting in Africa
Brown, Caitlin; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - 2016
Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version, a regression for log consumption calibrates a proxy-means test score based on chosen covariates, which is then implemented for targeting out-of-sample. In this paper, the...
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Retooling Poverty Targeting Using Out-of-Sample Validation and Machine Learning
McBride, Linden; Nichols, Austin - 2016
Proxy means test (PMT) poverty targeting tools have become common tools for beneficiary targeting and poverty assessment where full means tests are costly. Currently popular estimation procedures for generating these tools prioritize minimization of in-sample prediction errors; however, the...
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Constructing Robust Poverty Trends in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2008-14
Atamanov, Aziz; Mostafavi, Mohammad-Hadi; … - 2016
This paper constructs and tests the robustness of consistently measured poverty trends in the Islamic Republic of Iran after 2008, using international poverty lines based on U.S. dollars at 2011 purchasing power parity. The constructed estimates reveal three distinct periods of welfare in the...
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On the Ground or in the Air? : A Methodological Experiment on Crop Residue Cover Measurement in Ethiopia
Ambel, Alemayehu; Campbell, Jeff; Kosmowski, Frederic; … - 2016
burden. This study tests six alternative methods of crop residue coverage measurement among the same sample of rural … remote sensing methods perform equally well. Among survey-based methods, the strongest correlates of measurement errors are … total farm size, field size, distance, and slope. The results deliver a ranking of measurement options that can inform …
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Estimating Poverty Rates in Target Populations : An Assessment of the Simple Poverty Scorecard and Alternative Approaches
Diamond, Alexis; Gill, Michael; Rebolledo Dellepiane, Miguel - 2016
The performance of the Simple Poverty Scorecard is compared against the performance of established regression-based estimators. All estimates are benchmarked against observed poverty status based on household expenditure (or income) data from household socioeconomic surveys that span nearly a...
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