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Child deprivation and income poverty in Ghana

Kofinti, Raymond Elikplim; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2015

This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The first-order dominance methodology was used to examine five dimensions of deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the...

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Estimates of multidimensional poverty for India using NSSO-71 and -75

Mothkoor, Venugopal; Badgaiyan, Nina - 2021

We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We use income, health, education, and standard of living to measure the MPI. The MPI headcount declined from 26.9 to 13.75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates...

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Can information dissemination reduce last mile payment delays in the public works programme? Evidence from a field experiment in India

Das, Upasak; Paul, Amartya; Sharma, Mohit - 2021

Does information dissemination among beneficiaries of welfare programmes mitigate their implementation failures? We present experimental evidence in the context of a rural public works programme in India, where we assess the impact of an intervention that involves dissemination of publicly...

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Old-age pensions and female labour supply in India

Unnikrishnan, Vidhya; Sen, Kunal - 2020

's labour force participation is mostly in flexible employment, e.g. self-employment and agricultural and non-agricultural wage … employment, and is particularly evident for poorer households. …

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Institutionalizing segregation: Conditional cash transfers and employment choices

Palacio, María Gabriela - 2016

Some claim that certain forms of social protection, conditional cash transfers in particular, result in perverse incentives for recipients in order to stay eligible for receiving benefits. This notion has a bearing on the design of social protection programmes and may undermine the political...

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The resettlement of Vietnamese refugees across Canada over three decades

Hou, Feng - 2017

human capital, but they had high employment rates, and over time they closed their initial large earnings gap with other … educational attainment and earnings when they reached adulthood. The geographic region of residence was associated with some large …

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Earnings and employment microdata in South Africa

Kerr, Andrew; Wittenberg, Martin - 2019

them. In this paper we thus provide a summary of the main sources of data on earnings and employment and their strengths …Traditionally, analysts of the South African labour market have used household survey data to describe earnings and … employment in the post-Apartheid period. More recently, administrative data from the South African Revenue Service has been made …

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Is a move up the job ladder an escape from poverty?

Ampaw, Samuel; Danquah, Michael; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; … - 2024

Using panels of labour force surveys from Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and India and a recent work status classification, we provide an in-depth analysis of labour mobility up or down the job ladder. This classification allows us to observe job transition possibilities across six work...

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Social protection floor gaps and pandemic relief measures: A case for universalism? Exploring scalability through targeted versus universalist approaches

Oppel, Annalena - 2022

With the expansion of social protection measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, considerations both old and new have surfaced regarding targeted versus universalist approaches. This study focuses on how social protection coverage before the pandemic influences the extent of targeted versus...

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Stability and vulnerability of the Latin American middle class

Torche, Florencia; Lopez-Calva, Luis F. - 2012

Using panel datasets from Mexico and Chile for the 2000s, we examine the determinants of middle-class intra-generational mobility. We define the middle class by means of a latent index of economic wellbeing that is less sensitive to short-term fluctuation and measurement error than standard...

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