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Social Development and Absolute Poverty in Asia and Latin America.

De Geyndt, W. - World Bank Group - 1996

A social development perspective is used to seek an answer to the question: why is the incidence of absolute poverty so …

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Evidence and Policy Lessons on the Links between Disaster Risk and Poverty in Latin America

Lopez-Calva, Luis Felipe; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - 2009

. Among other reasons, there is a two-way relationship between the vulnerability to natural disasters and poverty, and …

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Natural Disasters, Household Welfare and Resilience: Evidence from Rural Vietnam

AROURI, Mohamed; BEN YOUSSEF, Adel; Nguyen, Nguyen Viet … - Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Économie, Gestion … - 2015

The study uses commune fixed-effect regressions to estimate the effect of natural disasters on welfare and poverty of …

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Subjective well-being in China, 2005-2010 : the role of relative income, gender and location

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Xiao, Saizi; Yeoh, Kok Kheng - 2016

poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …

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Multinational companies: Can they foster well-being in the eyes of the poor? Results from an empirical case study

Strotmann, Harald; Volkert, Jürgen; Schmidt, Melinda - In: International Journal of Corporate Social … 4 (2019) 1, pp. 1-14

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is supposed to benefit corporations but as well to foster the well-being of individuals, communities and society. However, there is still a lack of reliable evaluation results of CSR's effectiveness and efficiency. In addition, development researchers...

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Subjective Well-being in China, 2005-2010: The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location

Asadullah, Niaz; Xiao, Saizi; Yeoh, Emile Kok-Kheng - 2016

poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …

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Subjective well-being and relative poverty in rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2012

This paper revisits the debate over the importance of absolute vs. relative income as a correlate of subjective well-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We do so by combining household data with...

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Subjective well-being and relative poverty in rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 5, pp. 940-950

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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Poverty in Rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Multidimensional poverty in Nigeria : first order dominance approach

Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Olaniyan, Olanrewaju; … - 2014

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …

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