Author: Patricia SilvaPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Three Essays on Poverty and Environment Linkages
Author: Patricia SilvaThree Essays on Poverty and Environment Linkages
Author: Patricia C. SilvaPoverty and the Environment
Author: World BankPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821372234
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This report seeks to present micro evidence on how environmental changes affect poor households. It focuses primarily on environmental resources that are outside the private sphere, particularly commonly held and managed resources such as forests, fisheries, and wildlife. The objectives for this volume are three-fold. It is first interested in using an empirical data-driven approach to examine the dependence of the poor on natural resources. The second objective is to examine the role of the environment in determining health outcomes. A third area of interest concerns the role of policy instruments and reforms. This report uses general economics literature as well as data collected by the World Bank and its partners to analyze poverty-environment linkages at the household level. Poverty-environment linkages are inherently dynamic and involve behavioral responses that make the identification of cause and effect difficult. Thus, questions related to these linkages are ideally answered with the use of panel datasets or with data from randomized experiments.
Three Essays on Poverty and Inequality
Author: Claudia Sámano RoblesThree Essays on Poverty and Discrimination
Author: Carlos Eduardo Sepulveda-RicoPublisher:
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Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Three Essays on Poverty Mapping and Targeting
Author: Tomoki FujiiThree Essays on Interactions Between Poverty and Natural Resources
Author: Mattana WongsirikajornPublisher:
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Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poverty and Famines
Author: Amartya SenPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191037435
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis—the 'entitlement approach'—concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the characterization and measurement of poverty. Various approaches used in economics, sociology, and political theory are critically examined. The predominance of distributional issues, including distribution between different occupation groups, links up the problem of conceptualizing poverty with that of analyzing starvation.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Three Essays on Risk and Poverty
Author: Ariane VolkPublisher:
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Category : Financial security
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This dissertation explores poverty and economic insecurity as determinants of health outcomes, and as contributors to vulnerability to poverty. While the literature has paid much attention to the lack of financial resources in the context of economic development, newer research stresses that poverty does not only manifest in deprivation, but also in economic insecurity and risk. Vulnerability to poverty is an important dimension of individual welfare which is commonly unaddressed by conventional measures of poverty. This dissertation (1) assesses the linkages between economic insecurity, poverty and health outcomes, and (2) provides a better understanding of the role that risk plays in the welfare loss from poverty. The first chapter examines vulnerability to poverty, i.e. the inability of individuals to cope with economic risks in an environment of deprivation in the context of South Africa. It uses a Monte Carlo bootstrap method to simulate future poverty outcomes using five waves of data between 2008 and 2017, given randomized shocks to consumption, which are drawn from the distribution of shocks across the population. This chapter finds that conventional poverty measures underestimate the number of vulnerable South Africans by 6.1 percent. The second chapter evaluates welfare losses from vulnerability using the same South African panel data. It decomposes the welfare loss into its components, namely, the welfare loss due to poverty and the welfare loss due to risk. It finds that the welfare loss from vulnerability is 25 percent, compared to the collective welfare in a situation where there is no risk and no inequality or poverty. This chapter shows that most vulnerability is due to poverty, or deprivation in consumption, confirming existing literature on the persistence of poverty.The third chapter explores the association between economic insecurity, poverty and obesity. Specifically, it connects indicators of income volatility to body mass index (BMI), and highlights the differing relationship for individuals at various income levels. Higher income volatility is related to a significantly lower BMI, but the relationship varies across different measures for income volatility and across the income distribution. Income does not seem to function as a buffer against the effect of economic insecurity on BMI, as a relationship can only be established for the better off.