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What to take into account when measuring poverty? Poverty and Inequality at #OxCSAE2017
Measuring poverty can be challenging. Rocco Zizzamia and Elwyn Davies reflect on a selection of papers from the CSAE Conference sessions on poverty and inequality and discuss what happens if you stop taking households as units (your calculated GINI coefficient might be off!) … Continue reading
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Tagged Households, Inequality, OxCSAE2017, Poverty
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Ending early marriage in Bangladesh and Uganda
The practice of child marriage adversely affects the lives of millions of girls in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. In Uganda, nearly one in every two girls is married before reaching their 18th birthday. The situation is worse in Bangladesh … Continue reading
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Tagged Development, Mariage, Poverty
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Intra-household Resource Allocation and Familial Ties
Households in traditional societies often deviate from the form of the nuclear family household that dominate in developed economies. Grandparents and grandchildren, married siblings, other extended family members, or even unrelated individuals may cohabit, produce and consume together. In sub-Saharan … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Development, Household decision-making, Labour, Poverty, Risk and insurance, Rural, Social Networks
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Should policy seek to promote small firms or large ones in Africa?
Is small beautiful when it comes to firms in poor countries? Whatever one thinks is the answer to that question the pervasiveness of small scale enterprises in countries in sub-Saharan Africa is not in dispute. In a recent CSAE discussion … Continue reading
Posted in Jobs, Finance and Skills, Uncategorized
Tagged Development, Employment, Labour, Macro Policy Management, Political Economy, Poverty
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Poverty as a multi-dimensional and intertemporal phenomenon
Over the last few years, two major developments in the way poverty is conceptualised and measured stand out. These regard, respectively, poverty’s multi-dimensionality and its dynamic nature over time. Developing measurement techniques which appropriately capture these important aspects of poverty … Continue reading
The height production function from birth to maturity
Starting in the 1970s, anthropometric measures have increasingly been used in the social sciences as indicators of social well-being. Since then, adult height has been considered an indicator of the general health status in life, of the relative risk of … Continue reading
Community-Based Development initiatives: Who in the village hears about them and who doesn’t? And how?
Community-based development programmes, known for placing greater control of resources and decision-making in local hands, have long been an important part of development policy. But these programmes are also behest with their own challenges and limitations. One of these is … Continue reading
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Tagged Aid, Community-Based Development, Development, Poverty, Social Networks
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Subjective Well-being and Social Evaluation in a Poor Country
China’s remarkable rate of economic growth since the start of economic reform is generally assumed to have raised the economic welfare of the Chinese people dramatically. This is regarded as self-evident from the facts that, in less than three decades, … Continue reading
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Tagged Development, happiness, Household decision-making, Inequality, Poverty, subjective well-being
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Early life circumstances affect later-life mental health in Ghana
The economic losses due to mental health disorders in low-income countries are staggeringly large. Depression alone generates an estimated loss of 55.5 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in low- and middle-income countries. That number is less than a fifth as … Continue reading
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Tagged Health, Poverty
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What have we learned from all the agricultural microinsurance pilots?
This blog post is based on a keynote speech given by Daniel Clarke at the 8th International Microinsurance Conference, on 8 November 2012. Since 2003 there have been a large number of agricultural insurance pilots in low income countries. Many … Continue reading