Documents et rapports
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The surprising effects of the great recession : losers and winners in Thailand in 2008-2009 (anglais)
In 2009, buffeted by the great recession, Thai gross domestic product fell by 2.3 percent. Using monthly data from the socio-economic surveys of 2007-2010, this paper finds, after controlling for household...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6255 Date du document: 1 novembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Haughton,Jonathan,Khandker,Shahidur R.
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Appraising the Thailand village fund (anglais)
The Thailand Village Fund is the second-largest microcredit scheme in the world. Nearly 80,000 elected local Village Fund committees administer loans that reach 30 percent of all households. The value...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5998 Date du document: 1 mars 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Boonperm, Jirawan,Haughton,Jonathan,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Rukumnuaykit,Pungpond
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Household coping and response to government stimulus in an economic crisis : evidence from Thailand (anglais)
The crash of global financial markets in 2008 caused a ripple effect on economic demand and growth worldwide. Export-oriented economies were hit particularly hard, and many governments stepped in quickly...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6016 Date du document: 1 mars 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Haughton,Jonathan,Jitsuchon,Somchai,Khandker,Shahidur R.,Koolwal,Gayatri B.
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Evaluating the impact of Egyptian social fund for development programs (anglais)
The Egyptian Social Fund for Development was established in 1991 with a mandate to reduce poverty. Since its inception, it has disbursed about $2.5 billion, of which nearly two-fifths was devoted to supporting...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4993 Date du document: 1 juillet 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abou-Ali,Hala,El-Azony,Hesham,El-Laithy,Heba Farida A. F.,Haughton,Jonathan,Khandker,Shahidur R.
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Does the village fund matter in Thailand ? (anglais)
This paper evaluates the impact of the Thailand Village and Urban Revolving Fund on household expenditure, income, and assets. The revolving fund was launched in 2001 when the Government of Thailand promised...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5011 Date du document: 1 juillet 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Boonperm, Jirawan,Haughton,Jonathan,Khandker,Shahidur R.
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Handbook on poverty and inequality (anglais)
The handbook on poverty and inequality provides tools to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty. It provides background materials for designing poverty reduction strategies. This book...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 48338 Date du document: 27 mars 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Haughton,Jonathan,Khandker,Shahidur R.
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Economic growth, poverty, and household welfare in Vietnam (anglais)
Viet Nam is an economic success story - it transformed itself from a country in the 1980s as one of the poorest in the world, to a country in the 1990s with one of the world's highest growth rates. With...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 29086 Date du document: 1 janvier 2004 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Glewwe,Paul W.,Agrawal,Nisha,Dollar,David R.,Gallup,John Luke,Vijverberg, Wim P.M.,Haughton,Jonathan,Benjamin,H. Dwayne,Brandt,Loren,Van De Walle,Dominique,Minot, Nicholas,Baulch, Bob,Truong Thi Kim Chuyen,Haughton,Dominique,Wagstaff, Adam,Nga Nguyet Nguyen,Koch,Stefanie,Nguyen,Bui Linh,Trivedi,Pravin K.,Edmonds,Eric V.,Tirk, Carrie,Phong Nguyen,Cox,Donald C.