Search Results - "social welfare"

Measuring the level and inequality of wealth: An application to China by Ward, Patrick S.

“…Furthermore, the evolution in the cumulative distribution of household welfare is such that social welfare has been increasing with the passage of time, despite rising inequality in the early years of the survey.…”
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Diagnostic study of providing micro-insurance services to low-income households in Ethiopia: An input to a national micro-insurnce strategy by Amha, Wolday, Peck, David, Berhane, Guush, Aseffa, Yoseph, Kidanu, Berhane

“…We analyzed micro-insurance market structures, provision platforms, and distribution channels and categorize market factors and trends affecting the expansion of the micro-insurance sector (considered the penetration of social welfare and other government support networks as alternative risk mitigating mechanisms) and offer recommendations and interventions with an objective to structure a framework for a national agricultural insurance strategy for the rural economy in Ethiopia.…”
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Economics of patenting a research tool: participation and productivity by Koo, Bonwoo, Wright, Brian D.

“…It shows that a long patent life may encourage innovation incentives and increase social welfare, contrary to existing arguments that argue that long patent life always discourages the incentive for subsequent innovations. …”
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Social Equity (Women and Youth) Issues to Scale Digital Transformation of Egyptian Agriculture by (ICARDA), International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

“…Accordingly, in Egypt, ICT can play a catalytic role in the empowerment of women and youth by: • Expanding economic opportunities through greater access to markets, new forms of income generation and financial services. • Supporting social welfare through improved health service delivery, including reproductive health, comprehensive and up-to-date health and nutrition information, and capacity building opportunities. • Promoting the care economy by helping women maintain work-family balance. • Improving safety at work and otherwise. …”
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R&D investment in national and international agricultural research: An ex-ante analysis of productivity and poverty impact by Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Fan, Shenggen

“…The analysis uses a social welfare function to simulate the optimal allocation of research and development (R&D) investment across developing regions (1) to maximize agricultural growth or (2) to maximize poverty reduction at the global level. …”
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Can social security programs do more with less? General issues with challenges for southern Africa by Haddad, Lawrence James, Zeller, Manfred

“…There is now a widespread consensus on the importance of social security programs—or more specifically, social welfare programs and safety nets—as a key component of a public policy poverty reduction strategy (World Bank 1990; Graham 1994; van de Walle and Nead 1995). …”
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Conceptualizing food systems for global environmental change research by Ericksen, Polly J.

“…This paper outlines a framework for studying the multiple interactions of broadly defined food systems with global environmental change and evaluating the major societal outcomes affected by these interactions: food security, ecosystem services and social welfare. In building the framework the paper explores and synthesizes disparate literature on food systems food security and global environmental change, bridging social science and natural science perspectives. …”
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The evidence base for environmental and socioeconomic impacts of "sustainable" certification by Environment for Development, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC (EUA), Blackman, A, Rivera, J

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An equity lens on behavioral science for conservation by Crosman, Katherine, Jurcevic, Ines, Holmes, Carlin, Hall, Crystal, Allison, Edward H.

“…Such omission may lead to an overemphasis on the role of individual behaviors relative to system-level drivers of biodiversity loss, result in misalignment between behavioral interventions and the actual drivers of behavior in situ, and incur unanticipated negative social welfare and distributional costs, all of which may undermine conservation success. …”
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Agricultural Extension Services and Technology Adoption Survey, 2016 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…These surveys were complemented by follow-up visits and in-depth interviews with farmers in four communities and interviews with more than 30 key informants at national, district, EPA, and section levels The data collected include information about the household and head; agricultural practices and production by plot; sales and utilization by crops, tree crops, livestock and fisheries; technology adoption; extension services; access to inputs and credit; social networks; food security and dietary diversity; non-food expenditure; and other measures of economic and social welfare.…”
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Agricultural Extension Services and Technology Adoption Survey, 2018 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…These surveys were complemented by follow-up visits and in-depth interviews with farmers in four communities and interviews with more than 30 key informants at national, district, EPA, and section levels The data collected include information about the household and head; agricultural practices and production by plot; sales and utilization by crops, tree crops, livestock and fisheries; technology adoption; extension services; access to inputs and credit; social networks; food security and dietary diversity; non-food expenditure; and other measures of economic and social welfare.…”
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Fiscal outcomes in Bahrain: Oil price volatility, fiscal institutions or politics? by El-Enbaby, Hoda, Selim, Hoda

“…Fiscal volatility and excessive current spending (in the form of wages, social welfare and subsidies) leading to unsustainable non-oil deficits are not fully derived from oil price volatility. …”
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Synopsis: Economy-wide impacts of the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) by Filipski, Mateusz J., Taylor, J. Edward, Abegaz, Getachew Ahmed, Ferede, Tadele, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum, Diao, Xinshen

“…This should be good news to both finance and social welfare ministries.…”
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The emergence, persistence and current challenges of coffee forest gardens: A case study from Candelaria Loxicha, Oaxaca, Mexico by Aguilar-Støen, M., Angelsen, A., Stølen, K., Moe, S.R.

“…The article further illustrates how the international coffee agreement and social-welfare programs supported the emergence of forest gardens. …”
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Has farmers’ livelihood improved? : case studies about the impacts of compulsory land acquisition on farmers’ livelihood in China by Zhou, Mi

“…Though the affected farmers’ in the two cases demonstrated largely different attitudes to compulsory land acquisition and the degree of satisfaction about livelihood after compulsory land acquisition, there are common impacts on their livelihood, such as unsuccessful employment, low social welfare, lack of supporting social network due to the compulsory land acquisition. …”

Perceptions on Social Banking : an experimental analysis following narrative economic theory by Van Boxel, Koen Cornelis Gerardus Maria

“…These three groups were each shown a different narrative capturing either a bank that does traditional banking operations, a bank which does traditional banking operations and has a focus on following environmental-, social-, and governance (ESG) guidelines, and a social bank which puts focus on maximizing social welfare. Participants were then asked questions on their perceptions of the respective bank on both an economic performance (investment opportunity attractiveness) and an emotional level (willingness to be customer). …”

The contribution of increased equity to the estimated social benefits from a transfer program: An illustration from PROGRESA/Oportunidades by Alderman, Harold, Behrman, Jere R., Tasneem, Afia

“…The current distributional gains from such programs depend on the degree of inequality aversion in the social welfare function. Simulations show that, for a range of inequality aversion parameters, the welfare gains from current redistribution for the Mexican PROGRESA CCT program can be as large, or possibly much larger, than the estimated present discounted value of future earnings from human capital investments in lower and upper secondary schooling. …”
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The contribution of increased equity to the estimated social benefits from a transfer program: An illustration from PROGRESA by Alderman, Harold, Behrman, Jere R., Tasneem, Afia

“…This paper considers the current distributional gains from such programs and how those depend on the degree of inequality aversion in the social welfare function. Simulations show that for a range of inequality aversion parameters, the welfare gains from current redistribution for the Mexican PROGRESA conditional cash transfer program are as large, or possibly much larger, than the estimated present discounted value of future earnings from human capital investments in lower and upper secondary schooling. …”
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Vulnerability and welfare during multiple crises by van Asselt, Joanna, Lambrecht, Isabel B., Aung, Zin Wai

“…In this mixed context of social welfare improvements and unfulfilled reforms, COVID-19 hit—the first in a series of crises. …”
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Food subsidy changes in Sri Lanka: The short-run effect on the poor by Edirisinghe, Neville

“…When a basic needs approach began to be emphasized in development economics, Sri Lanka gained much prominence due to its long-standing involvement in broad social welfare policies.1 Long before the advent of the basic needs approach, Sri Lanka had pursued a policy of allocating large amounts of resources to enhancing the health, education, and nutrition of the population. …”
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