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Marjit, Sugata; Roychowdhury, Punarjit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The conflict between the income based and nutrition based estimates of poverty is a widely debated issue in economic … function can reconcile the conflict between the two measures of poverty. In addition, a simple general equilibrium model using …

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Firm Size and the Business Environment: Worldwide Survey Results.

Schiffer, M.; Weder, B. - International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group - 2001

The development of the small and medium enterprise sector is believed to be crucial for economic growth and poverty …

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Impact of equivalence scales on the spatial distribution of poverty in Cameroon: a dynamic approach

Ndeffo, Luc Nembot; Ngwen, Ngangue; Tegoum, Pierre … - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 1, pp. 253-273

female-headed households are poorer than male-headed households. Poverty is also found to be more prevalent in rural areas …, in households whose heads are illiterate, and in households whose heads work in the informal sector. As for poverty … dynamics, the results show that poverty decreased in Cameroon between 1996 and 2001. Despite the fact that some results are the …

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Pro-poor growth: concepts and measurement with country case studies

Kakwani, Nanak; Khandker, Shahid; Son, Hyun H. - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2004

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Grinspun, Alejandro - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2005

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Conspicuous Consumption, Social Status and Measures of Poverty – An Example

Marjit, Sugata; Mandal, Biswajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The existing literature on poverty has discussed about the conflict between income-based measure and nutrition … status driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income based and nutrition based measures of poverty. …

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A Simple Complementary Development Mechanics for African Countries

Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper provides a simple development mechanism for African nations, where economic development is low due to not only low level of physical capital but also poor social capital that leads to lot of conflicts. The study suggests for development of social capital, which is a broader concept...

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Risk and Savings: a Taxonomy

Gunning, Jan Willem - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

Risk may induce precautionary saving but it can also reduce saving. The theoretical literature recognizes both possibilities, but favors a positive effect (both for developed and developing countries); the empirical literature is divided, reporting (small) positive effects for developed...

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Household Survey Data for Research on Well-Being and Behavior in Central Asia

Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir; Kroeger, Antje; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

This paper summarizes the micro-level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household-level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - and...

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Pobreza, desigualdad y aprovechamiento de recursos naturales: Aproximaciones metodológicas desde la economía

López-Feldman, Alejandro - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2015

resources, poverty and inequality. Data from a representative sample of rural households from the South-southeast region of …

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