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Gimme shelter : social distancing and income support in times of pandemic

Aminjonov, Ulugbek; Bargain, Olivier; Bernard, Tanguy - 2021

Strict containment limits the spread of pandemics but is difficult to achieve when people must continue to work to avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using...

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Re-thinking social protection : from poverty alleviation to building resilience in middle-income households

Cossío, Diego Alejandro Vera; Hoffmann, Bridget; … - 2023

We exploit an expansion in social protection to middle-income households to provide evidence on how middle-income households cope with economic shocks and how to build their resilience. We use a regression discontinuity design around the eligibility cutoff for a program that delivered monthly...

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Overall Inequality Verses Wealth Based Inequality in Child Malnutrition : An Empirical Illustration for India

Sarkar, Debaprasad; Haldar, Sushil Kumar - 2014

This paper outlines a comparison empirically between overall inequality in child malnutrition (Malnutrition-Gini) and wealth based inequality in child malnutrition (Wealth-Based-Concentration Index) for Indian children. The framework by A. Wagstaff and E.van Doorslaer, 2003 is used for this...

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Safety net for India's poor or waste of public funds? : poverty and welfare in the wake of the World's Largest Job Guarantee Program

Klonner, Stefan; Oldiges, Christian - 2014

This paper examines the effects of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, currently the world …'s largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data … find that for this group of households,which accounts for thirty percent of India's rural population, employment …

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Welfare dynamics in India over a quarter-century : poverty, vulnerability, and mobility, 1987-2012

Dang, Hai-Anh; Lanjouw, Peter - 2018

We analyse the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning the period 1987/88-2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying...

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Welfare dynamics in India over a quarter century : poverty, vulnerability, and mobility during 1987-2012

Dang, Hai-Anh; Lanjouw, Peter - 2020

We analyze the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning 1987/88–2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of the consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these...

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Welfare dynamics in India over a quarter century : poverty, vulnerability, and mobility during 1987-2012

Dang, Hai-Anh; Lanjouw, Peter - 2020

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Protecting child nutritional status in the aftermath of a financial crisis : evidence from Indonesia

Giles, John; Satriawan, Elan - 2014

In response to concerns over the vulnerability of the young in the wake of Indonesia's 1997-1998 economic crises, the Government of Indonesia implemented a supplementary feeding program to support early childhood nutritional status. This paper exploits heterogeneity in duration of program...

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place : Poverty and Covid-19 in Developing Countries

Bargain, Olivier - 2020

In March 2020, shelter-in-place and social-distancing policies have been enforced or recommended all over the world to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. However, strict containment is hardly achievable in low-income countries, as large parts of population are forced to continue income-generating...

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Hiv/Aids : The Impact on Poverty and Inequality

Salinas, Gonzalo - 2009

Using available data on the distribution of HIV/AIDS prevalence across population groups for four sub-Saharan African countries and transposing this information to household income and expenditure surveys, we simulate the impact of HIV/AIDS on poverty and inequality. We find that the epidemic...

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