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Welfare implications of fiscal reform: The case of food subsidies in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2002
This paper investigates the effect of a food subsidy programme in India on child malnutrition by addressing the following linked questions using household survey data that includes information on usage of the public distribution system. First, does the food subsidy induce higher expenditures on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279140
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Energy security, poverty and vulnerability in Central Asia and the wider European neighbourhood
Slay, Ben - 2009
in Central Asia, the paper seeks to bring an economic development perspective to bear on energy policy debates in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430840
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Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2020
We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics since the late 20th century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing the economic burden of infectious diseases. Second, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322424
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Interrelated dynamics of health and poverty in Australia
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Cai, Lixin - 2009
health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269658
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Poverty, Inequality and Health: A case study of Armenia
Tonoyan, Tamara - 2005
The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using … equity with respect to financing and access is undermined. It is emphasized that reducing poverty and income inequality … should be grounded in a pro-poor growth approach, i.e. for equality to be achieved economic growth in the development process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262888
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The relationship between recessions and health
Drydakis, Nick - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven that they reduce mortality rates. A general health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573673
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The relationship between recessions and health
Drydakis, Nick - In: IZA World of Labor (2021)
Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven that they reduce mortality rates. A general health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266242
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Getting Warmer: Fuel Poverty, Objective and Subjective Health and Well-Being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021
fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get "under the skin". …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658214
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Getting warmer: fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021
fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get “under the skin”. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597119
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The measurement of capabilities
Anand, Paul; Santos, Cristina; Smith, Ron - 2007
It has often been claimed that it is impossible to measure human capabilities but within the methodological conventions of household survey design, we show that some non-financial capability indicators do already exist and we demonstrate how similar indicators, covering a wide range of life...
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