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Needs versus Expediency: Poverty Reduction and Social Development in Post-conflict CountriesConflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human damage can overwhelm public action, as there are many competing priorities and resources are often insufficient...
Economic development Education National securityWorking Paper
Does Food Insecurity Impact Subjective Evaluation of Well-being?: Evidence From a Developing CountryUnderstanding the relationship between food insecurity and subjective evaluation of well-being is critical in designing social welfare policies, especially in developing countries. Surprisingly, literature on the topic is scarce...
Food security Quality of life Welfare economicsWorking Paper
The Impact of Food Price Volatility on Consumer Welfare in CameroonThe objective of this paper is to analyse the welfare effects of food price volatility on Cameroonian consumers...
Food supply Households PricesWorking Paper
Policy Co-ordination and Growth Traps in a Middle-income Country Setting: The Case of South AfricaSouth Africa has exhibited tepid economic growth over the past twenty years as well as high levels of income inequality characteristic of a middle income country growth trap...
Economic growth Structural adjustment (Economic policy) Industrial policyWorking Paper
Growth, Poverty, and Inequality: The Case Study of CameroonThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the growth performance of the Cameroonian economy from independence in 1960 to date, and then to use this as a background for the analysis of poverty, inequality, and non-monetary outcomes...
Economic growth Equality and inequality MicroeconomicsWorking Paper
Monetary Inequality Among Households in Togo: An Illustration Based on the Decomposition of the Gini Coefficient Using the Shapley Value ApproachThis paper aims at measuring and analysing for the first time inequality in the distribution of expenditures among households in Togo according to the characteristics of household heads...
Equality and inequality Income distribution Index numbers (Economics)Working Paper
Consumption Bundle Aggregation in Poverty Measurement: Implications for Poverty and its Dynamics in UgandaOfficial poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s...
Econometric models (Economic development) Game theory HealthWorking Paper
Multi-dimensional Poverty Analysis for Tanzania: First Order Dominance Approach with Discrete IndicatorsAs in much of sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania has attained rapid economic growth accompanied by only marginal reductions in poverty...
Economic growth Game theory Poverty measurementWorking Paper
The Fall of the Elephant: Two Decades of Poverty Increase in Côte d’Ivoire (1988-2008)At the end of the 1980s, Côte d’Ivoire entered a deep macroeconomic crisis that put an end to the often-praised ‘Ivorian miracle’...
Household survey Poverty measurement Welfare economicsWorking Paper
Multidimensional Poverty in Nigeria: First Order Dominance ApproachThis study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. (2012)...
Game theory Microeconomics PovertyResearch Brief
The Evolution of Social Protection in Latin AmericaSocial insurance has not succeeded in reducing fiscal deficits and expanding coverage to more beneficiaries in Latin America Social assistance has had a greater impact on poverty and inequality than social insurance In lower-middle-income countries, ...
Economic policy Equality and inequality Social securityWorking Paper
Growth, Poverty and Inequality in Rwanda: A Broad PerspectiveThis study focuses on growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda. We take a broad perspective, in two respects...
Econometric models (Economic development) Equality and inequality PovertyWorking Paper
Multidimensional Welfare in Districts of Zambia: A First Order Dominance ApproachIn this paper we make welfare comparisons among districts of Zambia using multidimensional well-being indicators observed at the household level using the first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. in 2012...
Game theory Poverty Welfare economicsWorking Paper
Indices of Social Development and their Application to AfricaThis paper, using a new set of social development indices, explores the measurement of social development across Africa, and how this relates to broader development patterns and measurement...
Economic development Economic growth Equality and inequalityWorking Paper
Utility-Consistent Poverty in Ethiopia, 2000–11: Welfare Improvements in a Changing Economic LandscapeWe use Arndt and Simler’s utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011...
Econometric models (Economic development) Equality and inequality PovertyWorking Paper
Utility-Consistent Poverty in Madagascar, 2001-10: Snapshots in the Presence of Multiple Economy-Wide ShocksWe use Arndt and Simler’s (2010) utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Madagascar in 2001, 2005 and 2010...
Econometric models (Economic development) Equality and inequality Poverty