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weather data to measure the impact of remittances, both domestic and international, on poverty and human development outcomes … impact of remittances on measures of poverty and malnutrition is also found to be stronger in districts that are affected by … and unfavorable climate. Remittances are found to have a statistically significant impact on many of the indicators, and …
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?; (c) What are the determinants of migration?; (d) What is the impact of remittances on poverty, inequality, and … can be expected in the future?; (b) To what extent does migration increase per capita income and thereby reduce poverty … development?; and (e) What programs are implemented by the government to increase the benefits from remittances, and what can be …
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This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …
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This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …
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This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and … translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook. …
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This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...
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is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …
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The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into...
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Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of ?poverty? and inequality? and …
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This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274629