Documentos e informes
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Profitability of Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Malawi (Inglés)
This paper estimates the profitability of inorganic fertilizer use in maize production in Malawi. It employs a two-wave, nationally representative panel of data on smallholder households and plots to estimate...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10859 Fecha del documento: 24 de julio de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Francis Addeah Darko,Ricker-Gilbert,Jacob,Talip Kilic
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Impact of COVID-19 on Learning : Evidence from Six Sub-Saharan African Countries (Inglés)
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc upon global learning, with many countries facing severe school disruptions and closures. An emerging literature based on household survey data points to the pandemic...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 159274 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Dang,Hai-Anh H.,Siwatu,Gbemisola Oseni,Zezza,Alberto,Abanokova, Kseniya
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The Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Four African Countries : April to October 2020 - Evidence from LSMS-Supported High‑Frequency Phone Surveys on COVID-19 (Inglés)
As part of a global effort led by the World Bank to track the socio-economic impacts of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the living standards measurement study (LSMS) team supports high-frequency phone...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 160427 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2020 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Contreras Gonzalez,Ivette Maria,Siwatu,Gbemisola Oseni,Palacios-Lopez,Amparo,Pieters,Janneke,Weber,Michael
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Guidelines for constructing consumption aggregates for welfare analysis (Inglés)
An analyst using household survey data to construct a welfare metric is often confronted with onfronted with An analyst using household survey data to construct a welfare metric is often confronted with...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM135 Fecha del documento: 31 de mayo de 2002 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Deaton, Angus,Zaidi, Salman
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Directrices para construir agregados de consumo para analizar el bienestar (Español)
Un analista que usa los datos de las encuestas de hogares para la construcción de un indicador de bienestar se enfrenta a menudo con una serie de problemas teóricos y prácticos. ¿Qué componentes deben...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM135 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2002 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Deaton, Angus,Zaidi, Salman
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Poverty comparisons : a guide to concepts and methods (Ruso)
Poverty assessments are typically clouded in conceptual and methodological uncertainties. How should living standards be assessed? Is a household survey necessary, and is it a reliable guide? Where should...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM88 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 1999 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ravallion,Martin
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Manual de diseño y ejecución de Encuestas sobre condiciones de vida (LSMS) (Español)
Este manual explica el proceso de planificación, los procedimientos técnicos y los estándares utilizados en las encuestas de hogares del Estudio de Medición de los Niveles de Vida (LSMS, por sus siglas...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM126 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 1999 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Grosh, Margaret E.,Munoz, Juan
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Poverty lines in theory and practice (Inglés)
As a part of the Living Standards Measurement Study, this paper presents a critical overview of alternative approaches towards setting poverty lines, which: a) define the minimum level of living standards...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM133 Fecha del documento: 31 de julio de 1998 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ravallion,Martin
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Social assistance in Albania : decentralization and targeted transfers (Inglés)
Albania provides a small amount of social assistance to nearly 20 percent of its population through a system that allows a degree of community discretion in determining distribution. This study indicates...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM134 Fecha del documento: 31 de julio de 1998 Autor: Alderman,Harold H.
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The role of the private sector in education in Vietnam : evidence from the Vietnam Living Standards Survey (Inglés)
This paper uses data from the 1992-93 Vietnam Living Standards Survey (VLSS) to examine the nature of private schooling in Vietnam. Although the number of private schools is small, it is growing in both...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM132 Fecha del documento: 31 de marzo de 1998 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Glewwe,Paul W.,Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Chronic illness and retirement in Jamaica (Inglés)
This paper explores the impact of six non-communicable chronic diseases (NCCDs) on the decision to retire among men and women aged 45-85 in Jamaica using the 1991 and 1992 Survey of Living Conditions data...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM131 Fecha del documento: 31 de marzo de 1998 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Handa,Sudhanshu,Neitzert,Monica
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A manual for planning and implementing the living standards measurement study survey (Ruso)
This manual explains the planning process, technical procedures, and standards used in Living Standard Measurement Study (LSMS) household surveys, including what these procedures entail, why they are used...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM126 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 1998 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Grosh,Margaret Ellen,Munoz,Juan Eduardo
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Model living standards measurement study survey questionnaire for the countries of the former Soviet Union (Inglés)
This document presents a set of Living Standard Measurement Study (LSMS) questionnaires that have been developed for use in the Russian-speaking countries of the former Soviet Union. These questionnaires...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM130 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 1997 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Oliver,Raylynn
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Poverty comparisons and household survey design (Inglés)
Poverty comparisons - an increasingly important starting-point for welfare analysis - are almost always based on household surveys. They therefore require that one be able to distinguish underlying differences...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM129 Fecha del documento: 30 de abril de 1997 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Howes, Steven,Lanjouw, Jean Olson
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How does schooling of mothers improve child health - evidence from Morocco (Inglés)
Mothers' education is often found to be positively correlated with child health and nutrition in developing countries, yet the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. Threepossible mechanisms are: (1)...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM128 Fecha del documento: 31 de marzo de 1997 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Glewwe,Paul W.
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Model living standards measurement study survey questionnaire for the countries of the former Soviet Union (Ruso)
This document presents a set of Living Standard Measurement Study (LSMS) questionnaires that have been developed for use in the Russian-speaking countries of the former Soviet Union. These questionnaires...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM130 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 1997 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Oliver,Raylynn
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Unconditional demand for health care in Cote d'Ivoire : does selection on health status matter? (Inglés)
Health care demand price elasticities are often estimated from samples conditioned to include only sick people. This paper shows that not only may such estimates be statistically biased, but even when...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM127 Fecha del documento: 30 de noviembre de 1996 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Dow, William H.
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A manual for planning and implementing the living standards measurement study survey (Inglés)
This manual explains the planning process, technical procedures, and standards used in Living Standard Measurement Study (LSMS) household surveys, including what these procedures entail, why they are used...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM126 Fecha del documento: 31 de mayo de 1996 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Grosh,Margaret Ellen,Munoz,Juan Eduardo
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The contribution of income components to income inequality in South Africa : a decomposable Gini analysis (Inglés)
Much work has been devoted to deriving and extending decomposable inequality and poverty measures. For example, the use of decomposition techniques to partition inequality into within-race group and between-race...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM125 Fecha del documento: 31 de mayo de 1996 Autor: Leibbrandt, Murray V.,Woolard, Christopher D.,Wo
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Constructing an indicator of consumption for the analysis of poverty : principles and illustrations with reference to Ecuador (Inglés)
This paper is concerned with the derivation of a welfare indicator for households from consumption data. It examines, illustrating with reference the data for Ecuador, several of the steps involved in...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: LSM124 Fecha del documento: 31 de marzo de 1996 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Hentschel,Jesko S.,Lanjouw,Peter F.