منابع مشابه
Does fertility decrease household consumption? An analysis of poverty dynamics and fertility in Indonesia
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between fertility and poverty for Indonesia, a country which has experienced unprecedented economic growth and sharp fertility decline over recent decades. We illustrate the sensitivity of the effect of fertility on household consumption with respect to the equivalence scale in a unitary household framework. Using the propensity scor...
متن کاملPoverty, Household Size and Child Welfare in India
This study uses Indian unit record data from expenditure and employment surveys, in conjunction with State level indicators, to (a) investigate whether the backward classes and female headed households face higher poverty rates than others, and (b) examine the impact of poverty, along with a host of individual, family, socio economic and State characteristics, on child labour and child schoolin...
متن کاملUnderstanding Rural Poverty in Nepal
Nepal, with an area of 147,181 square kilometers (km), is a land of enormous geographical diversity. The country has three main geographical/ecological regions: the terai region, the hill region and the mountain region, which cover 23.1 percent, 41.7 percent, and 35.2 percent of the total area, respectively. Each ecological region is a narrow strip of land stretching from east to west. These th...
متن کاملFertility Levels, Patterns and Trends in Nepal
Population counting has a relatively long history in Nepal the first count was taken in 1911 and thereafter it was conducted roughly every ten years. However, the first four periodic censuses (1911, 1920, 1930, and 1941) did not meet the requirements of a scientific census. The 1952/54 census was the first scientific count in the modern sense of the term. Because of political instability the wh...
متن کاملPoverty and Household/family Size in Tanzania: Multiple Responses to Population Pressure?
The Research on poverty Alleviation (REPOA) is a not-forprofit Non-Governmental Organisation registered in Tanzania in November, 1994. Its overall objective is to deepen the understanding of causes, extent, nature, rate of change and means of combating poverty in Tanzania. The specific objectives focus on development of local research capacity, development of poverty research network, enhancing...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: World Development
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0305-750X
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.11.005