Social Transfers, Labor Supply and Poverty Reduction: The Case of Albania
In: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4783
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In: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4783
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the attempts to limit its spread have resulted in profound economic impacts, and a significant contraction in the global economy is expected. This paper provides some of the first evidence on the socioeconomic impacts of and responses to the pandemic among households and individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa. To do so, reduced-form econometric methods are applied to longitudinal household survey data from Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda -- originating from the pre-COVID-19 face-to-face household surveys and from the novel phone surveys that are being implemented during the pandemic. The headline findings are fourfold. First, although false beliefs about COVID-19 remain prevalent, government action to limit the spread of the disease is associated with greater individual knowledge of the disease and increased uptake of precautionary measures. Second, 256 million individuals -- 77 percent of the population in the four countries -- are estimated to live in households that have lost income due to the pandemic. Third, attempts to cope with this loss are exacerbated by the inability to access medicine and staple foods among 20 to 25 percent of the households in each country, and food insecurity is disproportionately borne by households that were already impoverished prior to the pandemic. Fourth, student-teacher contact has dropped from a pre-COVID-19 rate of 96 percent to just 17 percent among households with school-age children. These findings can help inform decisions by governments and international organizations on measures to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and reveal the need for continued monitoring.
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In: Journal of development economics, Band 141, S. 102376
ISSN: 0304-3878
In: Journal of development economics, Band 141
ISSN: 0304-3878
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 70, S. 416-463
In: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7282
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In: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6381
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 147, S. 1-13
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In: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9152
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In: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9151
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 92, S. 143-157
In: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7182
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In: Economics of transition, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 587-623
ISSN: 1468-0351
AbstractThis study uses data from the 2005 Albania Living Standards Measurement Study survey to assess the impact of past migration experience of Albanian households on non‐farm business ownership through instrumental variables regression techniques. Considering the differences in earning potentials and opportunities for skill acquisition in different destination countries, we differentiate the impact of past household migration experience by main migrant destinations. The study also explores the heterogeneity of impact based on the timing of migration. The empirical results indicate that past household migration experience exerts a positive impact on the probability of owning a non‐farm business. While one additional year in Greece increases the probability of household business ownership by roughly 6 percent, a similar experience in Italy or farther destinations raises the probability by over 25 percent. Although past household migration experience for the period of 1990–2000 is positively associated with the likelihood of owning a household enterprise, a similar association does not exist for the period of 2001–2004.
In: The European journal of development research, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 448-470
ISSN: 1743-9728
In: Journal of development economics, Band 158, S. 102927
ISSN: 0304-3878