Household poverty
- Intrahousehold allocation and gender relations: new empirical evidence
- A. R. Quisumbing; J. A. Maluccio / Gendernet, World Bank, 1999
- Paper reviews recent theory and empirical evidence testing unitary versus collective models of the household. In contrast to the unitary model, the collective model posits that individuals within households have different prefe...
- Nonfarm income: reducing poverty in Egypt, increase rural inequality in Jordan
- R. H. Adams / World Bank, 2001
- This article uses decomposition analysis to examine the impact of different sources of income (including nonfarm income) on poverty and inequality in rural Egypt and Jordan. Conclusions: While nonfarm income reduces poverty and...
- Microdeterminants of Consumption, Poverty, Growth, and Inequality in Bangladesh
- Q.T. Wodon / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- What are the gains from a better education, more land ownership, or a different occupation in Bangladesh? Do the gains differ in urban and rural areas? Have they remained stable over time? Do household size, family structure, and gend...
- Analysis of how HIV/AIDS undermines household responsiveness to cope with crises
- K. Waller / Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
- This paper focuses on how HIV/AIDS undermines household responsiveness to cope with crises, such as new agricultural policy reforms, HIV/AIDS, years of drought, and death of cattle. It uses a collection of 32 household case-studies. I...
- Globalisation, poverty and inequality in Zambia during the 1990s
- N. McCulloch; B. Baulch; M. Cherel-Robson / OECD Development Centre, 2000
- Zambia has undergone a dramatic transformation of economic policy during the 1990s. The election in 1991 of the Movement for Multi-party Democracy government saw the introduction of a series of major economic reforms designed to trans...
- Comparing PPA and household surveys on poverty trends: what recommendations arise from this analysis?
- R. McGee / Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development, Uganda, 2000
- This article results from consultancy work attempting to clarify the picture on poverty trends, identify areas which require further work and any further findings from the analysis which require policy action. This analytical work foc...
- What phenomena contributed to income inequality in Cote d'Ivoire
- M. Grimm / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
- This paper proposes a microeconomic decomposition of the evolution of income inequality in Cote d'Ivoire in the 1990s. This allows for the disentangling of the simultaneous contributions of four types of phenomena to the evolution of ...
- Exploration of intrahousehold behavior and its implications for empirical analysis and policy prescriptions
- L.C. Smith; J-P. Chavas / International Food Policy Research Institute, 1999
- Paper illustrates how an intrahousehold approach can contribute to a better understanding of microeconomic allocation decisions and policy impacts. For the West African setting in particular, it shows that price policy impacts depend ...
- Specific recommendations as to how research could address these issues
- H. Nazli; S. Hamid / Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Pakistan, 1999
- The available literature in Pakistan is generally lacking a critical examination of the issues related to intra-household resource allocation. This black box is due largely to the lack of individual-level data on dietary intake, anthr...
- Can poor households adapt to change?
- M. Gonzalez de la Rocha; A. Grinspun / Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000
- Changes in labor markets and State withdrawal from the financing and provision of social benefits and services have had a major impact on the way households organize their labor, time and other resources. To cope with these changes, h...
- Analysis of how HIV/AIDS undermines household responsiveness to cope with crises
- K. Waller / Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997
- This paper focuses on how HIV/AIDS undermines household responsiveness to cope with crises, such as new agricultural policy reforms, HIV/AIDS, years of drought, and death of cattle. It uses a collection of 32 household case-studies. I...
- Globalisation, poverty and inequality in Zambia during the 1990s
- N. McCulloch; B. Baulch; M. Cherel-Robson / OECD Development Centre, 2000
- Zambia has undergone a dramatic transformation of economic policy during the 1990s. The election in 1991 of the Movement for Multi-party Democracy government saw the introduction of a series of major economic reforms designed to trans...
- Comparing PPA and household surveys on poverty trends: what recommendations arise from this analysis?
- R. McGee / Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development, Uganda, 2000
- This article results from consultancy work attempting to clarify the picture on poverty trends, identify areas which require further work and any further findings from the analysis which require policy action. This analytical work foc...
- What phenomena contributed to income inequality in Cote d'Ivoire
- M. Grimm / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
- This paper proposes a microeconomic decomposition of the evolution of income inequality in Cote d'Ivoire in the 1990s. This allows for the disentangling of the simultaneous contributions of four types of phenomena to the evolution of ...
- Exploration of intrahousehold behavior and its implications for empirical analysis and policy prescriptions
- L.C. Smith; J-P. Chavas / International Food Policy Research Institute, 1999
- Paper illustrates how an intrahousehold approach can contribute to a better understanding of microeconomic allocation decisions and policy impacts. For the West African setting in particular, it shows that price policy impacts depend ...
- Specific recommendations as to how research could address these issues
- H. Nazli; S. Hamid / Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Pakistan, 1999
- The available literature in Pakistan is generally lacking a critical examination of the issues related to intra-household resource allocation. This black box is due largely to the lack of individual-level data on dietary intake, anthr...
- Can poor households adapt to change?
- M. Gonzalez de la Rocha; A. Grinspun / Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000
- Changes in labor markets and State withdrawal from the financing and provision of social benefits and services have had a major impact on the way households organize their labor, time and other resources. To cope with these changes, h...
- Family and public support for the elderly in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
- Huck-ju Kwon / Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1999
- This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to the living standards of the elderly in East Asia. It tries to test whether familial arrangement according to Confucian ethics, which are still taken seriously in Ea...
- Structural adjustment and agriculture in Guyana: From crisis to recovery
- J. Loxley; V. Jamal / Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 1999
- Documents the decline and rise of the Guyanese economy, with particular focus on the agricultural sector and its contribution to employment creation and poverty alleviation. The demarcation line between decline and recovery is put at ...
- Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics (CHILD)
- Promotes the collaboration of researchers in the field of population and household economics with a particular interest to the relationships between households, within households and between the family and the state by organising conferences, seminars and research on these themes. Acts as a network for the activities of five Italian universities.
- Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
- The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) is a cross-national data archive located in Luxembourg. The LIS archive contains two primary databases. The LIS Database includes income microdata from a large number of countries at multiple points in time. The newer LWS Database includes wealth microdata from a smaller selection of countries. Both databases include labour market and demographic data as wel...
- The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)
- The Rights and Resources Initiative is a coalition of international, regional and community organisations engaged in conservation, research and development. The RRI mission is to promote greater global action on pro-poor forest policy and market reforms to increase household and community ownership, control and benefits from forests and trees. Its programme areas are broken down into c...
