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Long-term effects of PROSPERA on welfare

Aguilar Esteva, Arturo Alberto; Barnard, Cristina; De … - 2019

to policy makers and academics alike. This paper analyzes the long-term effects on the welfare of the original … look into the effects on schooling and health, the analysis focuses on a utilitarian definition of welfare and employs two …

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Poverty, vulnerability, and household coping strategies during the 2015–16 recession in Belarus

Bornukova, Kateryna; Cojocaru, Alexandru; Matycin, … - 2019

This paper examines the impact of the recent recession in Belarus on poverty and broader measures of household welfare …-income households to a much greater extent, and the negative welfare effects lingered. The paper also documents that although the …

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Socioeconomic resilience in Sri Lanka : natural disaster poverty and wellbeing impact assessment

Walsh, Brian; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2019

Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as the main measure of disaster severity. Using an agent-based...

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Toward successful development policies : insights from research in development economics

Artuc, Erhan; Cull, Robert J.; Dasgupta, Susmita; Jaef, … - 2020

What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...

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Iraq's universal public distribution system : utilization and impacts during displacement

Phadera, Lokendra; Sharma, Dhiraj; Wai-Poi, Matthew - 2020

are effective in mitigating the loss of welfare induced by forced displacement. This paper examines whether Iraq's Public …

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Returns to low-skilled international migration : evidence from the Bangladesh-Malaysia migration lottery program

Mobarak, Mushfiq; Sharif, Iffath A.; Shrestha, Maheshwor - 2020

Many economists believe that the returns to migration are high. However, credible experimental estimates of the benefits of migration are rare, particularly for low-skilled international migrants and their families. This paper studies a natural experiment in Bangladesh, where low-skilled male...

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Lives and livelihoods : estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic

Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … distributional characteristics. Using years of life as a welfare metric yields a single parameter that captures the underlying trade …-off between lives and livelihoods: how many PYs have the same welfare cost as one LY. Taking an agnostic view of this parameter …

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An optimal rice policy for Sierra Leone : balancing consumer and producer welfare

Graham, Errol George; Tchale, Hardwick; Ndione, Mamadou - 2020

, simulations suggest that an optimal policy path to balance consumer and producer welfare and meet the higher societal objective of …

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Vulnerability to poverty following extreme weather events in Malawi

Baquie, Sandra; Fuje, Habtamu - 2020

Severe weather shocks recurrently hit Malawi, and they adversely affect the incomes of many farm households as well as small businesses. With climate change, the frequency of extreme weather events is expected to increase further. A clear understanding of households' vulnerability to...

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Measuring natural risks in the Philippines : socioeconomic resilience and wellbeing losses

Walsh, Brian; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2019

Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as its main measure of disaster severity. Using a new,...

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