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Empirical income distributions: the case of Sri Lanka
Naranpanawa, Athula; Selvanathan, Saroja - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) January, pp. 26-50
Purpose – There has been growing interest in recent years in modelling various poverty-related issues. However, there have not been many attempts at empirical estimation of best-fit income distribution functions with an objective of subsequent use in poverty focused models. The purpose of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742454
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Empirical income distributions: the case of Sri Lanka
Naranpanawa, Athula; Selvanathan, Saroja - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) January, pp. 26-50
Purpose – There has been growing interest in recent years in modelling various poverty-related issues. However, there have not been many attempts at empirical estimation of best-fit income distribution functions with an objective of subsequent use in poverty focused models. The purpose of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685880
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Empirical income distributions: the case of Sri Lanka
Naranpanawa, Athula; Selvanathan, Saroja; Bandara, … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2012) 1, pp. 26-50
Purpose – There has been growing interest in recent years in modelling various poverty‐related issues. However, there have not been many attempts at empirical estimation of best‐fit income distribution functions with an objective of subsequent use in poverty focused models. The purpose of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805771
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Vulnerability and livelihoods before and after the Haiti earthquake
Echevin, Damien - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009427342
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Poverty in Haiti : essays on underdevelopment and post disaster prospects
Lundahl, Mats - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008748793
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Vulnerability and Livelihoods before and after the Haiti Earthquake
Echevin, Damien - 2011
This paper examines the dynamics of poverty and vulnerability in Haiti using various data sets. As living conditions … (DHS) available before the earthquake. Decomposing household assets changes into age and cohort effects, we use repeated … in the future. Poverty and vulnerability profiles are drawn from these estimates. Second, we decompose vulnerability to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395138
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Benefit in the wake of disaster : long-run effects of earthquakes on welfare in rural Indonesia
Gignoux, Jeremie - In: Journal of development economics 118 (2016), pp. 26-44
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637166
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Vulnerability and Livelihoods before and after the Haiti Earthquake
Echevin, Damien - 2012
This paper examines the dynamics of poverty and vulnerability in Haiti using various data sets. As living conditions … (DHS) available before the earthquake. Decomposing household assets changes into age and cohort effects, we use repeated … in the future. Poverty and vulnerability profiles are drawn from these estimates. Second, we decompose vulnerability to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012551348
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Oasis of resilience? : an empirical investigation of rain water harvesting systems in a high poverty, peripheral community
Aldrich, Daniel P.; Page-Tan, Courtney - In: Economics of disasters and climate change 4 (2020) 1, pp. 129-144
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224010
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Poverty in Haiti : Essays on Underdevelopment and Post Disaster Prospects
Lundahl, Mats - 2011
Following the 2010 earthquake catastrophe, this book examines the economic and political challenges facing Haiti. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053912