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David Stifel
Researcher at Lafayette College
Publications - 79
Citations - 3762
David Stifel is an academic researcher from Lafayette College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Agriculture. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 78 publications receiving 3457 citations. Previous affiliations of David Stifel include United Nations University & Cornell University.
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Exploring Alternative Measures of Welfare in the Absence of Expenditure Data
David E. Sahn,David Stifel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an asset-based alternative to the standard use of expenditures in defining well-being and poverty is considered, and the authors find that the asset index is a valid predictor of a crucial manifestation of poverty.
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Poverty Comparisons Over Time and Across Countries in Africa
David E. Sahn,David Stifel +1 more
TL;DR: This article used Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to compare "poverty" at two or more points in time within and between African countries, and found that the majority of the improvements were due to improvements in rural areas.
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Urban–Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Africa
David E. Sahn,David Stifel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the relative importance of rural versus urban areas in terms of monetary poverty and seven other related living standards indicators is examined, and the relative and absolute rates of change for urban and rural areas are examined.
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Isolation and agricultural productivity
David Stifel,Bart Minten +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the mechanisms that transmit isolation into productivity in the case of Madagascar and found that the inverse relationship between agricultural productivity and isolation is surprisingly strong, and identified the following reasons why productivity might decline with isolation: transportation-induced transaction costs, increasing price variability and extensification onto less fertile land and insecurity.
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Progress Toward the Millennium Development Goals in Africa
David E. Sahn,David Stifel +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze demographic and health surveys to examine the progress of African countries in achieving six of the seven millennium development goals (MDG) set forth by the United Nations and conclude that despite some noteworthy progress, the evidence suggests that, in the absence of dramatic changes in the rates of improvement in most measures of living standards, the MDG will not be reached for most indicators in most countries.