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Analyzing food security using household survey data
Moltedo, Ana; Lokshin, Michael; Troubat, Nathalie; … - World Bank - 2014
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Myanmar Monitoring Platform - Household Surveys : Results from the May 2022 High-Frequency Phone Survey of Households
World Bank - 2022
This report focuses on the results of round eight high frequency phone survey of households in Myanmar conducted in May …
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Myanmar Monitoring Platform - Household Surveys : Results from the February 2022 High-Frequency Phone Survey of Households​ - Round 7
World Bank - 2022
This report focuses on the results of round seven high frequency phone survey of households in Myanmar conducted in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013545346
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The invisible poor : a portrait of rural poverty in Argentina
2010
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Tapping the markets : opportunities for domestic investments in water and sanitation for the poor
Sy, Jemina - 2014
This publication discusses the challenges faced in accelerating access to improved water and sanitation services beyond the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. It examines the private sector provision of piped water services and on-site sanitation services in rural areas and small towns,...
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Wealth : crucial but not sufficient evidence from Pakistan on economic growth, child labor, and schooling
Hou, Xiaohui - 2009
"The relationship between wealth and child labor has been widely examined. This paper uses three rounds of time-series, cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between wealth and child labor and schooling. The paper finds that wealth is crucial in determining a child's activities, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394125
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Market integration and structural transformation in a poor rural economy
Söderbom, Måns - 2009
"By developing a simple theoretical model of the impact of market integration on sectoral output and employment in a poor rural setting, this paper demonstrates that trade can induce asymmetric growth. Under certain, plausible, assumptions, the non-farm sector will grow much faster than the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394150
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Poverty decline, agricultural wages, and non-farm employment in rural India : 1983-2004
Lanjouw, Peter - 2009
"The authors analyze five rounds of National Sample Survey data covering 1983, 1987/8, 1993/4, 1999/0, and 2004/5 to explore the relationship between rural diversification and poverty. Poverty in rural India declined at a modest rate during this period. The authors provide region-level estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394152
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Does rising landlessness signal success or failure for Vietnam's agrarian transition?
Ravallion, Martin - 2006
"In the wake of reforms to establish a free market in land-use rights, Vietnam is experiencing a pronounced rise in rural landlessness. To some observers this is a harmless by-product of a more efficient economy, while to others it signals the return of the pre-socialist class-structure, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522189
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Remittances and poverty in Ghana
Adams, Richard H. Jr - 2006
"The author uses a large, nationally representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal remittances …, as opposed to internal, remittances are included in household income, and when poverty is measured by the more sensitive … international remittances in household expenditure (income) reduces the severity of poverty by 34.8 percent, while including …
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