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Education from the Bottom Up: UNICEF‘s Education Programme in Somalia

Part of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

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From the Editor's Desk (December 2013)

10 December 2013 Tony Addison Our November-December Angle comes amid intense activity on our ReCom—Research and Communication on Foreign Aid—programme, which is drawing to a close...

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Poverty and Time

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring Poverty Over Time

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Poverty and Time

We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. Our aim is to capture the importance of persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a corresponding individual intertemporal poverty measure...

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Poverty Mapping With Aggregate Census Data: What Is the Loss in Precision?

Part of Journal Special Issue Spatial Inequality and Development in Asia

Aggregation operators Econometrics Economic development
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Poverty Mapping With Aggregate Census Data: What Is the Loss in Precision?

From the book: Spatial Disparities in Human Development

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Poverty Mapping with Aggregate Census Data: What is the Loss in Precision?

Spatially disaggregated maps of the incidence of poverty can be constructed by combining household survey data and census data...

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