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An Impact Evaluation of Digital Cash Transfers Scheme on Income Poverty in Nigeria

Nwaobi, Godwin - 2023

Just as the African economy is confronting its sharpest reversal in a generation; Nigeria is currently faced with perhaps the most challenging economic downturn (amidst fuel subsidy removal) in its history. Thus, social protection programmes in the form of social cash transfers to vulnerable...

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Vulnerability and Coping to Disasters: A Study of Household Behaviour in Flood Prone Region of India

Patnaik, Unmesh; Narayanan, K - 2010

Disaster risk is a major concern in a developing country like India as people living in disaster prone regions of the country are subject to variety of risks concerning their livelihoods. Preliminary assessments reveal that the severity and intensity of floods in various parts of India might...

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Double burden of nutritional disorder among Indian women: an assessment of differentials and determinants

Singh, Deepti; Goli, Srinivas; T.V., Sekher - 2011

In India, over the years, the progress in women’s nutritional status has been less impressive and remains as a major problem for health policy. The dual burden of nutritional disorder of women in India is posing a serious challenge not only for nutritional policy but also for socio-economic...

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The effect of emigration and remittances on labour supply of the left-behind: Evidence from Nepal

Sharma, Hari - 2020

Rapid increases in work-related emigration and subsequent inflows of remittances have raised policy concerns about impacts on labour supply in emigration-source countries. The growing literature in this area ignores spillover effects from emigration and remittances in one locality affecting...

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Income and migration revisited

Graves, Philip E. - 1979

While there was no abstract for this paper, it provides a theoretical model and empirical results that support an important role for climate in the human location/relocation decision.

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Household choice of public versus private schooling: a case study of Bahawalpur City

Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Raza, Maryam - 2011

Government of Punjab is committed to attain the universalization of school education by providing free education and even in a number of districts the free books and through the programs of food for education. The stipends on the subsidized schooling are also part of the policy by Government of...

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Mental Accounting and Remittances: A Study of Malawian Households

Davies, Simon; Easaw, Joshy; Ghoshray, Atanu - 2006

In this paper we use a behavioural approach to studying household consumption behaviour in Malawi. In particular we are interested to know whether households use mental accounting when consuming different categories of good. It is useful for assessing the impact of remittances on household...

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Individual Migration as a Family Strategy: Young Women in the Philippines

Lauby, Jennifer; Stark, Oded - 1988

Migration behavior by individuals, migration decisions and migration outcomes are not neutral to the needs and … suggesting that the choice of migrant members and migration destination are largely determined by familial characteristics. We … obtain several interesting insights into the migration process. The standard human capital approach explains the inverse …

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Mental Accounting and Remittances: A Study of Malawian Households

Davies, Simon; Easaw, Joshy; Ghoshray, Atanu - 2006

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Conundrums in public distribution system in India: an assessment by states and social groups

Goli, Srinivas - 2011

Growing number of studies accentuated enigmas in PDS system, many of them provided evidences based on National Sample Survey (NSS) and other official statistics, more particularly by major states. Many of them also highlighted theoretical and operational difficulties in existing policy...

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