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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Household welfare"”.
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Three essays on household welfare
… of poverty and the impact of shocks on household welfare. Below are the individual abstracts for each chapter. Chapter 1: Subjective Poverty and Natural Disasters: Evidence from the 2007 Earthquake in Peru This paper examines the causal impact of natural disasters on subjective poverty, …
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Three essays on development economics : household welfare
… and methodological aspects of measuring household economic well-being. The three consider different aspects of household welfare and its determinants. The first chapter examines the effect of a macroeconomic policy on household welfare; the second chapter studies the effect of a …
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The effect of housing micro-finance on household welfare
… towards improved living conditions and welfare of low-income households through a case study analysis. Data was collected from employees and beneficiaries of Ikhayalami's loan finance programme using observations, pictures and semi structured individual interviews. Data was analysed for …
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Internal migration, remittances and household welfare: evidence from South Africa
… between internal labour migration and the welfare of migrant-sending households and communities. The analysis is couched in the new economics of labour migration theory, which recognises the familial participation in migration decisions and therefore the potential role of economic linkages …
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The impact of microinsurance on household welfare in South Africa
… provision of insurance services to low-income households in South Africa is still neglected owing to pervasive information asymmetry. Even though households identify the importance of insurance, this has not translated into changed behaviour. According to KPMG, while 74% of households recognise …
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Matrilineal Asset Inheritance, Female Bargaining Power, and Household Welfare in Malawi
… effect of increased female bargaining power on household consumption decisions. I use the matrilineal ethnicity of the head of household as an instrument for the share of total household land inherited by the female head or male head’s wife. I find that child’s height-for-age decreases with …
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The impact of rainfall variability on agricultural production and household welfare in rural Malawi
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Where trees grow, assets grow: applying spatial matching to evaluate agroforestry’s household welfare impacts in Kenya
… downstream effect of agroforestry promotion on household welfare is difficult due to the long-term nature of agroforestry's payoffs and their dependence on local agro-ecological conditions. Agroforestry evaluation often requires detailed data that can only be collected by household survey, and …
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The heterogeneous impacts of energy type and metering systems on household welfare: insights from Ghana and South Africa
… emerging economies, focusing on their impacts on household welfare. It examines the differential effects of electricity and other primary energy sources on household enterprise income in Ghana, highlighting the significant role of energy inputs in enterprise development. Additionally, the study …
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Reconciling conservation, agriculture and household welfare: Testing the suitability of the land sparing and sharing model in Western Uganda
… small-scale food production is at the heart of household food security and livelihoods, and commercial sugarcane production has contributed to widespread deforestation. Where deforestation and land use change threaten the natural resources on which the majority of the population depend, adopting …
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Microfinance and welfare of households in Ngcobo villages in the Eastern Cape Province
… examined the effectiveness of microfinance on welfare of rural households in Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape through an administered survey. The study targeted fifty households based on convenience sampling technique and used a number of welfare indicators but selected food consumption patterns; …
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Natural resource degradation and household time allocation among rural activities : empirical evidence from Uganda
… on production and well-being of rural households in Uganda. In the face of growing concerns about the environment, policy makers in Uganda are finding themselves increasingly pressured to choose between environmental degradation in the long run and the ever-growing needs of the poor …
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Impact of cassava innovations on household productivity and welfare in Uganda
… AIS interventions on cassava productivity and household welfare? (c) what are the causal factors influencing the choice of cassava seed access sources? (d) what are the determinants of cassava technology adoption? (e) what is the impact of improved-uncertified cassava seed adoption on cassava …
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Assessing the Contribution of Village Community Bank on Household Welfare:A Case Study of Kishapu District, Shinyanga
… therefore assesses the contribution of VICOBA on household welfare in Kishapu District. The study specifically aimed to, identifying the impact of VICOBA on household welfare, to examine the contribution of VICOBA in alleviation of income poverty and to determine the community‟s attitude towards …
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Impacts of Crop Diversification and Household Resilience on Welfare and Child Nutrition in Senegal
… nutrition. In Senegal’s Groundnut Basin, where households rely on rain-fed farming and have limited formal risk-management options, crop diversification and household resilience are central strategies for protecting welfare. Although both are widely promoted as risk-management strategies, …
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The impact of micro-finance on poverty alleviation: A case study of Swakopmund youths
… used to measure the impact of microfinance on household welfare. Furthermore, three business indicators were utilised to assess the impact of microfinance on firm growth. Sales, profits, and capital are examples of these. The impact of four microfinance variables on household welfare was also …
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Three essays on forestry economics and management
… management strategies directly affect landowner welfare, and factors ranging from natural disturbances to institutional environments play important roles in influencing the outcomes for both landowners and society. This dissertation, consisting of three essays, delves into the forest sectors in …
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Impact of Migration on Welfare of Migrant Sending Households in Selected Rural Areas of Zimbabwe
… moving out of poverty, thus signaling potential welfare linkages between migrants and family members left behind. The current study investigates the impact of migration on welfare of migrant sending households in rural Zimbabwe using cross-sectional data. The study employed a Counterfactual …
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The impact of mobile money on Rwandan household consumption
… formal insurance mechanisms among rural farming households. The spread of mobile phones has introduced mobile money, which offers new financial opportunities to marginalized groups. This study examines mobile money's impact on consumption in Rwanda, using data from the Rwanda FinScope 2020 …
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Drivers of adoption and impacts of smallholder climate-resilient agricultural technologies
… weather, irrigation and farm productivity and household welfare, by taking advantage of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in rural Haiti.
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