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Social networks, geographic proximity, and firm performance in Viet Nam

Howard, Emma - 2017

This paper uses panel data to assess the relative importance of social networks and geographic proximity to micro, small, and medium enterprises in Viet Nam. The results suggest that a larger social network, and hiring employees mainly through social networks, are both correlated with higher...

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Ordinal welfare comparisons with multiple discrete indicators: A first order dominance approach and application to child poverty

Arndt, Channing; Distante, Roberta; Azhar Hussain, M.; … - 2012

We develop an approach for making welfare comparisons between populations with multidimensional discrete well …

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Estimating multidimensional poverty in Zambia

Mahrt, Kristi; Masumbu, Gibson - 2015

In this paper, we apply the first-order dominance (FOD) approach to assessing multidimensional welfare to analyse … multidimensional poverty in Zambia in 1996, 2006, and 2010. In addition to evaluating welfare across time and space, we extend the … methodology to evaluate welfare by rural agricultural strata and urban housing cost areas. This modification allows a more …

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Multidimensional assessment of child welfare for Tanzania

Arndt, Channing; Leyaro, Vincent; Mahrt, Kristi; Tarp, Finn - 2016

We contribute to the literature on trends in living standards in Tanzania by analysing child welfare using two multi … in the middle. The methodologies also complement each other by providing upper and lower bounds on underlying welfare …

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Do people in income poverty use their income efficiently? A subjective well-being approach

Rojas, Mariano - 2012

A subjective well-being approach is followed to assess the magnitude of inefficiency in the use of income. The information comes from a Mexican survey and an X-inefficiency technique is used. The paper shows that there exists substantial inefficiency in the use of income at all income levels,...

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Mandated political representation and crimes against the low castes

Girard, Victoire - 2016

Mandated political representation over the last twenty years has had a different impact on the reporting of crime by the low castes than what is observed for the reporting of crime by women. I exploit the timing of the implementation of mandated political representation of the low castes to...

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Intra-household bargaining in poor countries

Baland, Jean-Marie; Ziparo, Roberta - 2017

marriages, strategic investment, gender norms, and extended households play in the attainment of efficiency. …

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Conflicting measures of poverty and inadequate saving by the poor: The role of status-driven utility function

Marjit, Sugata - 2012

In the presence of inequality a status-driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income-based and nutrition-based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in the developing countries. The result is independent of...

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Inequality, ethnicity, and social cohesion

McDoom, Omar Shahabudin - 2017

How do changes in socio-economic inequality between ethnic groups affect interethnic ties in a divided society? I analyse the evolution of cross-ethnic marriages in a society affected by violence along ethnic boundaries and make three principal findings. First, as inequality between ethnic...

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Exploring the network of individuals that influence the media's inflation message in South Africa

Smuts, Katrien - 2023

The main goal of this study-and its potential to add to the policy debate-is to cast light on the network of voices that influence the narrative about inflation and monetary policy in South Africa. To that end, this paper first identifies the main individuals (journalists, domestic policy...

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