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Housing, health and happiness
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007What is the causal impact of housing improvement programmes on health and welfare? This paper investigates the impact of a large-scale effort by the Mexican government to replace dirt floors with cement floors on child health and adult happiness. The paper identifies several positive results, including:DocumentDo workers in Chile choose informal employment? A dynamic analysis of sector choice
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007To asses the coverage of Chile’s social insurance and pensions plan, this paper examines shifts in the country's labour market during a period of economic contraction. Employment in the formal sector requires workers to save for social insurance, while the self-employed can choose whether and how to save and the informal workers are responsible for their own pension.DocumentUrban and peri-urban aquaculture development in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India
Centre for Environment and Society, University of Essex, 2006This paper follows the 2005 Dhaka workshop on "Peri-urban aquatic production and improvement of the livelihoods of the urban poor in south east Asia".DocumentThe impact of conflict on the intergenerational transmission of chronic poverty: an overview and annotated bibliography
Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007This overview and annotated bibliography reviews the multi-disciplinary literature on the impact of conflict on intergenerational transmission (IGT) of chronic poverty.It addresses the following issues:the mechanisms by which conflict causes povertythe duration of the resulting povertythe likelihood that poverty will be transmitted from one generation to anotherthe types ofDocumentSituation of children without primary caregivers in Viet Nam
United Nations Children's Fund, 2007This report provides an overview of a study that examined the systems of institutional and alternative care in Viet Nam for vulnerable children who do not live with their biological parents.DocumentExpanding decent employment in Kenya: the role of monetary policy, inflation control, and the exchange rate
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007This paper examines the current Kenyan monetary regime and evaluates the extent to which it is able to promote sustainable economic development that significantly expands decent employment opportunities.DocumentInformal economy in the conflict region of Sri Lanka: an exploration
Point Pedro Institute of Development, Sri Lanka, 2006The objective of this paper is to study the nature, extent, and causes of the informal economy in the conflict-affected region of Sri Lanka and propose policy measures to combat or reduce such informal economic activities.DocumentRecent trends in poverty and inequality: some preliminary results
Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2007This paper reports the trends in poverty and inequality in India from the 1960s to the present day. The major finding from the study is that while poverty did reduce during 1993-2005, the annual rate of reduction in this period was lower than in the 1970s and 1980s.DocumentAsking people what they want or telling them what they need? contrasting a theory of human need with local expressions of goals
ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2007This study uses Quality of Life research to examine the importance respondents have attributed to a variety of goals in two rural communities in Ethiopia.DocumentWage trends in post-apartheid South Africa: constructing an earnings series from household survey data
Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2007This paper examines South African wage earnings trends using all the available post-1994 household survey data. It identifies and addresses the sources of data inconsistencies across surveys in order to construct a more comparable earnings time series.Pages