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The role of community agency in the rural community and economic development processes needs to be better understood in America and other advanced, industrialized nations. Community agency is vital to protecting, retaining, and... more
Les analyses traditionnelles du marché du travail s'avèrent incapables d'expliquer le paradoxe apparent entre un taux de chômage relativement modéré dans un pays tel que le Pérou (environ 10%, taux peu sensible aux fortes fluctuations... more
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This paper explores the relationship between different levels of education and poverty through an analysis of household-level data from 60 villages in Bangladesh. First of all, it depicts the overall trend in school enrollment at primary... more
Several studies have recently reported that social class differences in ill-health during adolescence are almost non-existent or invisible. The aims of this comparative study of two different welfare states are first, to compare whether... more
for insightful comments. Financial support from the collaborative DFID-World Bank program on land policies and rural development and the Norwegian ESSD Trust Fund (Environment Window) is gratefully acknowledged.
This paper compares and contrasts the use of four 'short-cut' methods for identifying poor households: (i) the poverty probability method; (ii) OLS regressions; (iii) principal components analysis; and, (iv) quantile regressions. After... more
The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations... more
Objective There are more than 2,000 new cases of mouth cancer each year in Britain. Early detection is important yet little is known about population awareness of this disease and ability to recognise early signs, particularly among high... more
Infant mortality and morbidity risk is linked to formula usage. The proportion of Filipino infant formula users rose 6% between 2003 and 2008. It is hypothesized this rise resulted from aggressive formula industry marketing.
Ð This article analyzes the evolution of rural nonfarm employment (RNFE) and income in Chile during 1990±96. The data used come from the National Socioeconomic Survey (CASEN), and from a household survey undertaken by the authors in two... more
In this paper we use the rich set of unit-level data from the most recent Egyptian household surveys (1995 -1996 and 1999 -2000) to assess changes in poverty and inequality between 1995 and 2000. The study analysis is based on the new... more
Land change science has demonstrated that rural livelihoods around the world both drive and reflect changing environmental regimes and political economic/structural transformations. This article explores the relationship between... more
This paper uses the results of a household survey conducted in Cairo, Egypt in 1992 to examine the factors that influence the demand for inpatient and outpatient health services. Multi-stage discrete choice models of the demand for health... more
The paper analyses the determinants of household recycling in Italy with particular emphasis on social behaviours. The econometric analysis is based on two waves -1998 and 2000 -of the Multipurpose Household Survey conducted annually by... more
The concept of anomie is one of the classics of sociological theory. Developed and evolved by scholars such as Emile Durkheim and Robert K. Merton, the concept refers to the absence of clear social norms and values and to a lack of sense... more
The study relates village seed systems to biological diversity of millet crops grown by farmers in the semi-arid lands of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, India. In these subsistence-oriented, semi-arid production systems the environment is... more
This paper reviews the basic concept of the profitability of investment in education and enumerates the various techniques that have been used in the literature to estimate the rate of return to investment in education. The various... more
Employing household survey data covering the periods 1992–1993, 1995–1996, and 1999–2000, this article shows for the case of Uganda that a coffee market liberalization followed by a price boom was associated with substantial reductions in... more
Theoretically, measures of household wealth can be reflected by income, consumption or expenditure information. However, the collection of accurate income and consumption data requires extensive resources for household surveys. Given the... more
This study assesses which agricultural subsectors have the strongest capacity to drive economic growth and poverty reduction in Ethiopia, and what kind of agricultural and nonagricultural growth is needed to achieve the millennium... more
This study integrated remote sensing, household survey data, and spatial modeling to assess drivers of deforestation within the Community Baboon Sanctuary (CBS), Belize, an IUCN category IV protected area for the black howler monkey... more
This paper evaluates the contribution of cash transfer programmes to the observed fall in inequality in Brazil between 1995 and 2004 as well as its impact on poverty. We use the 2004 Brazilian National Household Survey (PNAD) that for the... more
This paper uses non-parametric methods to set food and overall poverty lines using Cameroon Household Survey data. The methodology blends the traditional food energy-intake and the cost-of-basic- needs methods. After expressing the 1984... more
Little is known about informal financial markets in developing countries. This paper analyzes participation in rotating savings and credit associations using a national household survey from Taiwan. We find that participation is highest... more
Face à la progression des pathologies chroniques liées à l'alimentation, l'obésité en particulier, il apparaît essentiel de connaître l'évolution sur le long terme de la consommation alimentaire. L'objectif de cette étude est... more
This paper explores local environmental problems at both the household and neighbourhood levels in Chittagong, based on a broad spectrum household survey. The survey shows that households in poor areas are very exposed to localized... more
To ensure the acceptability of community-based insurance (CBI) by the community and its sustainability, a feasibility study of CBI was conducted in Burkina Faso, including preference for benefit package of CBI, costing of health services,... more
Farmers in the Sahel have always been facing climatic variability at intra-and inter-annual and decadal time scales. While coping and adaptation strategies have traditionally included crop diversification, mobility, livelihood... more
This paper examines sex differences in job satisfaction by utilizing data from the 1986 UK Social and Economic Life Initiative (SCELI) household survey. It attempts to ascertain the relationship between actual and comparison pay and job... more
Human trafficking is a humanitarian problem of global scale, but quantitative research on the issue barely exists. This paper is the first attempt to analyze the economics of human trafficking and labour migration based on micro data,... more
The life quality research is in fact a major field of the analysis on the social and economic evolution of a country. The living standard (life quality) keeps on being a quite sensitive issue as it implies a number of both methodological... more
Community-based waste management (CBWM) is an alternative waste management strategy for communities where municipal governments are not providing waste collection services. In order to assess the feasibility of introducing CBWM to an... more
Suicidal behaviours are one of the most important contributors to the global burden of disease among women, but little is known about prevalence and modifiable risk factors in low and middle income countries. We use data from the WHO... more
Analysis of the first nationally representative household survey of Uganda shows that women-headed households are not poorer when assessed by consumption or income. Nor do they appear consistently disadvantaged on social indicators. Some... more
A study was conducted in four selected upazilas under four coastal districts through participatory rural appraisal (PRA), household survey and monitoring, sampling, focal group discussions, personal interview, onfarm field visits,... more
Community-driven development (CDD) – a widely practiced tool by development donors and practitioners worldwide - strives to empower and develop communities by giving them joint control over aid allocations. This is expected to improve... more
This paper analyzes the household level impact of an increase in price of major tradable staple foods in a cross section of developing countries, using nationally representative household surveys. We find that, in the short term, poorer... more
To investigate differences in 12-month prevalences of mental disorders and 12-month treatment contact among New Zealand born and migrants in separate ethnic groups in Te Rau Hinengaro: The New Zealand Mental Health Survey (NZMHS). The... more
Because the conditions for agricultural development vary considerably across space, we need to develop methods that allow us to take such variability into account when evaluating development strategies for particular crops or farming... more
Several studies have documented women's use of vaginal practices in South Africa to enhance their desirability to men. This article describes a little known practice of this kind among women in KwaZulu-Natal. It involves the use of... more