F Burchi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 47271 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | F Burchi |
| NOMBRES | F |
| APELLIDO | Burchi |
| FIRMA | BURCHI F |
| AFILIACIONES | German Institute of Development and Sustainability |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2095-5181 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Gender Differences in Multidimensional Poverty in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries
Despite the growing demand for gender‐disaggregated statistics on poverty, there is hardly any cross‐country evidence of gender disparities in poverty. The paper contributes to filling this gap, by using two novel individual‐level indices of multidimensional poverty. Relying on data from 78 low‐ and middle‐income countries, it finds that almost everywhere female poverty exceeds male poverty. In the median country, female poverty is 58%–85% higher…
Social Cohesion
Social cohesion is crucial to increasing societies’ resilience to shocks and to enabling sustainable futures. Amidst growing tensions and polarization in all world regions, social cohesion ranks high on the agendas of researchers, decision-makers and international organizations. Despite the strong interest in the topic, there are major constraints to understanding its patterns, causes and effects: the lack of a common conceptualization and measur…
Do public works programmes foster climate resilience? Conceptual framework and review of empirical evidence
Public works programmes (PWPs) are pervasively used to tackle poverty and unemployment, and to build infrastructure and skills in low‐ and middle‐income countries. While their impacts on poverty, food security and labour outcomes have been widely documented, there is little research focusing on the role of PWPs in supporting household climate resilience in the global context of a deepening climate crisis. To fill this gap, we propose a conceptual…
Benefits of rural-urban interactions for sustainable food security in Iran
Cities and rural areas, as two human settlements, have long interacted with each other, and these interactions have many benefits for producing better products and food security. However, despite the importance of benefits in rural-urban interaction, identifying, improving, and investing them in rural areas of Iran has always been neglected. Therefore, in addition to identifying the benefits of interactions, this study investigates the causal rel…
Disentangling the Relationship Between Social Protection and Social Cohesion
While there is substantial evidence of the effect of social protection on poverty and vulnerability, limited research has focused on societal outcomes. This paper serves as introduction to a special issue (SI) examining the relationship between social protection and social cohesion in low- and middle-income countries. Over the last years, social cohesion has emerged as a central goal of development policy. The introduction and the papers in the S…
Can Integrated Social Protection Programmes Affect Social Cohesion? Mixed-Methods Evidence from Malawi
Through a sequential mixed-methods approach, the paper investigates the effects of the different components of the Tingathe Economic Empowerment Programme (TEEP) on social cohesion in Malawi. The TEEP is an integrated social protection scheme offering to three different groups these services: a lump-sum transfer, a financial/business training connected to the creation of saving groups, and a combination of both. While other studies assessed the i…
Does economic growth reduce multidimensional poverty? Evidence from low- and middle-income countries
The long-standing tradition of empirical studies investigating the nexus between economic growth and poverty concentrates mainly on monetary poverty. In contrast, little is known about the relationship between economic growth and multidimensional poverty. Consequently, this study seeks to assess the elasticity of multidimensional poverty to growth, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The study employs two novel, individual-based multi…
An Individual-based Index of Multidimensional Poverty for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This paper proposes a new index of multidimensional \npoverty, called the Global Correlation Sensitive Poverty \nIndex (G-CSPI), which has three interesting features. First, it \nencompasses three dimensions: decent work, education \nand access to drinking water and sanitation, which largely \noverlap with the list of ideal dimensions obtained by \nexpanding the Constitutional Approach, although it does \nnot include direct health measures. Secon…
Linking Social Protection Schemes
In developing countries and in particular in sub-Saharan Africa, social protection schemes tend to operate in silos. However, schemes targeting the same geographical areas may have synergies that have not yet been examined, and which are worth scrutinising. This paper contributes to this knowledge gap by examining the joint impacts of two social protection programmes in Ethiopia, that is, the Productive Safety Net Programme and a Community Based …
Women’s Political Representation and Educational Attainments
This paper has three major objectives: (1) to analyse whether the gender of politicians in India is relevant to the educational achievements of the residents of the districts in which they were elected; (2) to test whether politicians are more sensitive to the needs of the people of same gender and (3) to explore the potential channels through which the above relationships operate. By applying econometric techniques to a dataset obtained by mergi…
Social protection and revenue collection
Social protection and revenue collection are often regarded as potential drivers of social cohesion. The article joins this debate, providing three main contributions. First, we carefully discuss the concept of social cohesion and endorse one specific definition. Second, we propose using the concept of the “fiscal contract” as the key theoretical lens to understand the often neglected potential joint effects of social protection and revenue colle…
Linking small-scale farmers to the durum wheat value chain in Ethiopia
Food security and agricultural-led industrialisation are pivotal development objectives in Ethiopia. One of the main challenges this country faces is increasing agricultural productivity by integrating smallholder farmers into a high-value agricultural commodity supply chain. This paper examines an integrated project—the Agricultural Value Chains Project in Oromia (AVCPO)—that aims to improve the livelihoods of smallholders in the Bale Zone by in…
Constructing Well-Being and Poverty Dimensions on Political Grounds
A Review of the Literature on Well-Being in Italy
In recent years, a large literature on indicators of well-being and quality of life has emerged. While all these indicators are an important step toward the recognition of well-being as a multidimensional phenomenon, they are often rooted in very different approaches—when we can identify a relevant “theoretical” framework—such as basic needs, happiness, or capability approach, and vary significantly in terms of statistical quality. This paper has…
Children’s Multidimensional Health and Medium-Term Cognitive Skills in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Special Issue “Capability Approach and Multidimensional Well-being in High-income Countries”
This article is the Introduction to the Special Issue on “Capability Approach and Multidimensional Well-being in High-income Countries”. The volume offers an in-depth investigation of the major methodological challenges faced in the attempt to measuring and analyzing well-being in high-income countries and portrays people's well-being conditions in different European countries. It contains seven papers, which are an interesting combination of the…
Measuring Human Development in a High-Income Country
This paper is concerned with the construction of an appropriate conceptual framework for measuring human development with a focus on high-income countries. Too often, the measurement exercise is based on a purely empirical basis where indicators simply reflect data availability and “conventional wisdom”. This is likely to misguide policy-makers. We deal with two core points for the construction of a conceptual framework: (a) specification of the …
From food availability to nutritional capabilities
This paper has a threefold objective. First, it provides a comprehensive review of different approaches to analysing food security. Second, it highlights the added value provided by the capability approach and the human development paradigm. Third, it proposes a methodology to assess food security through this approach. Our proposal entails three basic steps: (1) analysis of food entitlements; (2) analysis of nutritional capabilities and (3) anal…
Which Dimensions Should Matter for Capabilities? A Constitutional Approach
Multidimensional theories of well-being are locked into a debate about value judgment. They seek to settle which dimensions should matter for measurement and policy, and, more importantly, on what grounds to decide what should matter. Moreover, there is a gulf between theory and practice, given that measurement and policy are rarely rooted in a coherent ethical framework. Our paper engages in the debate concerning the legitimate grounds for selec…
The Development Project as an Institution for Agency and Capability Expansion
Whose education affects a child's nutritional status? From parents' to household's education
The paper engages in the ongoing debate regarding the determinants of child nutrition in developing countries and stresses the potential contribution of the education of household members other than the childâ s parents
Democracy, institutions and famines in developing and emerging countries
The paper has a two-fold objective.First, it theoretically and empirically analyses the effects of democracy on famine mortality.Second, it examines the role played by other institutional/governance factors.The econometric exercises realised with data on a group of emerging and developing countries confirm the validity of Amartya Sen's 'democracy prevents famine' argument.Moreover, two main institutional indicators, computed by the World Bank, 'c…
Child nutrition in Mozambique in 2003
From food availability to nutritional capabilities
This paper has a threefold objective. First, it provides a comprehensive review of different approaches to analysing food security. Second, it highlights the added value provided by the capability approach and the human development paradigm. Third, it proposes a methodology to assess food security through this approach. Our proposal entails three basic steps: (1) analysis of food entitlements; (2) analysis of nutritional capabilities and (3) anal…
Does economic growth reduce multidimensional poverty? Evidence from low- and middle-income countries
The long-standing tradition of empirical studies investigating the nexus between economic growth and poverty concentrates mainly on monetary poverty. In contrast, little is known about the relationship between economic growth and multidimensional poverty. Consequently, this study seeks to assess the elasticity of multidimensional poverty to growth, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The study employs two novel, individual-based multi…
Measuring Human Development in a High-Income Country
This paper is concerned with the construction of an appropriate conceptual framework for measuring human development with a focus on high-income countries. Too often, the measurement exercise is based on a purely empirical basis where indicators simply reflect data availability and “conventional wisdom”. This is likely to misguide policy-makers. We deal with two core points for the construction of a conceptual framework: (a) specification of the …
Disentangling the Relationship Between Social Protection and Social Cohesion
While there is substantial evidence of the effect of social protection on poverty and vulnerability, limited research has focused on societal outcomes. This paper serves as introduction to a special issue (SI) examining the relationship between social protection and social cohesion in low- and middle-income countries. Over the last years, social cohesion has emerged as a central goal of development policy. The introduction and the papers in the S…
Social protection and revenue collection
Social protection and revenue collection are often regarded as potential drivers of social cohesion. The article joins this debate, providing three main contributions. First, we carefully discuss the concept of social cohesion and endorse one specific definition. Second, we propose using the concept of the “fiscal contract” as the key theoretical lens to understand the often neglected potential joint effects of social protection and revenue colle…
An Individual-based Index of Multidimensional Poverty for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This paper proposes a new index of multidimensional \npoverty, called the Global Correlation Sensitive Poverty \nIndex (G-CSPI), which has three interesting features. First, it \nencompasses three dimensions: decent work, education \nand access to drinking water and sanitation, which largely \noverlap with the list of ideal dimensions obtained by \nexpanding the Constitutional Approach, although it does \nnot include direct health measures. Secon…
Can Integrated Social Protection Programmes Affect Social Cohesion? Mixed-Methods Evidence from Malawi
Through a sequential mixed-methods approach, the paper investigates the effects of the different components of the Tingathe Economic Empowerment Programme (TEEP) on social cohesion in Malawi. The TEEP is an integrated social protection scheme offering to three different groups these services: a lump-sum transfer, a financial/business training connected to the creation of saving groups, and a combination of both. While other studies assessed the i…
Democracy, institutions and famines in developing and emerging countries
The paper has a two-fold objective.First, it theoretically and empirically analyses the effects of democracy on famine mortality.Second, it examines the role played by other institutional/governance factors.The econometric exercises realised with data on a group of emerging and developing countries confirm the validity of Amartya Sen's 'democracy prevents famine' argument.Moreover, two main institutional indicators, computed by the World Bank, 'c…
Linking small-scale farmers to the durum wheat value chain in Ethiopia
Food security and agricultural-led industrialisation are pivotal development objectives in Ethiopia. One of the main challenges this country faces is increasing agricultural productivity by integrating smallholder farmers into a high-value agricultural commodity supply chain. This paper examines an integrated project—the Agricultural Value Chains Project in Oromia (AVCPO)—that aims to improve the livelihoods of smallholders in the Bale Zone by in…
Constructing Well-Being and Poverty Dimensions on Political Grounds
Which Dimensions Should Matter for Capabilities? A Constitutional Approach
Multidimensional theories of well-being are locked into a debate about value judgment. They seek to settle which dimensions should matter for measurement and policy, and, more importantly, on what grounds to decide what should matter. Moreover, there is a gulf between theory and practice, given that measurement and policy are rarely rooted in a coherent ethical framework. Our paper engages in the debate concerning the legitimate grounds for selec…
The Development Project as an Institution for Agency and Capability Expansion
Whose education affects a child's nutritional status? From parents' to household's education
The paper engages in the ongoing debate regarding the determinants of child nutrition in developing countries and stresses the potential contribution of the education of household members other than the childâ s parents
Children’s Multidimensional Health and Medium-Term Cognitive Skills in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Special Issue “Capability Approach and Multidimensional Well-being in High-income Countries”
This article is the Introduction to the Special Issue on “Capability Approach and Multidimensional Well-being in High-income Countries”. The volume offers an in-depth investigation of the major methodological challenges faced in the attempt to measuring and analyzing well-being in high-income countries and portrays people's well-being conditions in different European countries. It contains seven papers, which are an interesting combination of the…
Do public works programmes foster climate resilience? Conceptual framework and review of empirical evidence
Public works programmes (PWPs) are pervasively used to tackle poverty and unemployment, and to build infrastructure and skills in low‐ and middle‐income countries. While their impacts on poverty, food security and labour outcomes have been widely documented, there is little research focusing on the role of PWPs in supporting household climate resilience in the global context of a deepening climate crisis. To fill this gap, we propose a conceptual…
Women’s Political Representation and Educational Attainments
This paper has three major objectives: (1) to analyse whether the gender of politicians in India is relevant to the educational achievements of the residents of the districts in which they were elected; (2) to test whether politicians are more sensitive to the needs of the people of same gender and (3) to explore the potential channels through which the above relationships operate. By applying econometric techniques to a dataset obtained by mergi…
Child nutrition in Mozambique in 2003
Democracy, institutions and famines in developing and emerging countries
The paper has a two-fold objective.First, it theoretically and empirically analyses the effects of democracy on famine mortality.Second, it examines the role played by other institutional/governance factors.The econometric exercises realised with data on a group of emerging and developing countries confirm the validity of Amartya Sen's 'democracy prevents famine' argument.Moreover, two main institutional indicators, computed by the World Bank, 'c…
Whose education affects a child's nutritional status? From parents' to household's education
The paper engages in the ongoing debate regarding the determinants of child nutrition in developing countries and stresses the potential contribution of the education of household members other than the childâ s parents
Which Dimensions Should Matter for Capabilities? A Constitutional Approach
Multidimensional theories of well-being are locked into a debate about value judgment. They seek to settle which dimensions should matter for measurement and policy, and, more importantly, on what grounds to decide what should matter. Moreover, there is a gulf between theory and practice, given that measurement and policy are rarely rooted in a coherent ethical framework. Our paper engages in the debate concerning the legitimate grounds for selec…
The Development Project as an Institution for Agency and Capability Expansion
Special Issue “Capability Approach and Multidimensional Well-being in High-income Countries”
This article is the Introduction to the Special Issue on “Capability Approach and Multidimensional Well-being in High-income Countries”. The volume offers an in-depth investigation of the major methodological challenges faced in the attempt to measuring and analyzing well-being in high-income countries and portrays people's well-being conditions in different European countries. It contains seven papers, which are an interesting combination of the…
Measuring Human Development in a High-Income Country
This paper is concerned with the construction of an appropriate conceptual framework for measuring human development with a focus on high-income countries. Too often, the measurement exercise is based on a purely empirical basis where indicators simply reflect data availability and “conventional wisdom”. This is likely to misguide policy-makers. We deal with two core points for the construction of a conceptual framework: (a) specification of the …
From food availability to nutritional capabilities
This paper has a threefold objective. First, it provides a comprehensive review of different approaches to analysing food security. Second, it highlights the added value provided by the capability approach and the human development paradigm. Third, it proposes a methodology to assess food security through this approach. Our proposal entails three basic steps: (1) analysis of food entitlements; (2) analysis of nutritional capabilities and (3) anal…
A Review of the Literature on Well-Being in Italy
In recent years, a large literature on indicators of well-being and quality of life has emerged. While all these indicators are an important step toward the recognition of well-being as a multidimensional phenomenon, they are often rooted in very different approaches—when we can identify a relevant “theoretical” framework—such as basic needs, happiness, or capability approach, and vary significantly in terms of statistical quality. This paper has…
Children’s Multidimensional Health and Medium-Term Cognitive Skills in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Linking small-scale farmers to the durum wheat value chain in Ethiopia
Food security and agricultural-led industrialisation are pivotal development objectives in Ethiopia. One of the main challenges this country faces is increasing agricultural productivity by integrating smallholder farmers into a high-value agricultural commodity supply chain. This paper examines an integrated project—the Agricultural Value Chains Project in Oromia (AVCPO)—that aims to improve the livelihoods of smallholders in the Bale Zone by in…
Constructing Well-Being and Poverty Dimensions on Political Grounds
Linking Social Protection Schemes
In developing countries and in particular in sub-Saharan Africa, social protection schemes tend to operate in silos. However, schemes targeting the same geographical areas may have synergies that have not yet been examined, and which are worth scrutinising. This paper contributes to this knowledge gap by examining the joint impacts of two social protection programmes in Ethiopia, that is, the Productive Safety Net Programme and a Community Based …
Women’s Political Representation and Educational Attainments
This paper has three major objectives: (1) to analyse whether the gender of politicians in India is relevant to the educational achievements of the residents of the districts in which they were elected; (2) to test whether politicians are more sensitive to the needs of the people of same gender and (3) to explore the potential channels through which the above relationships operate. By applying econometric techniques to a dataset obtained by mergi…
Social protection and revenue collection
Social protection and revenue collection are often regarded as potential drivers of social cohesion. The article joins this debate, providing three main contributions. First, we carefully discuss the concept of social cohesion and endorse one specific definition. Second, we propose using the concept of the “fiscal contract” as the key theoretical lens to understand the often neglected potential joint effects of social protection and revenue colle…
An Individual-based Index of Multidimensional Poverty for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This paper proposes a new index of multidimensional \npoverty, called the Global Correlation Sensitive Poverty \nIndex (G-CSPI), which has three interesting features. First, it \nencompasses three dimensions: decent work, education \nand access to drinking water and sanitation, which largely \noverlap with the list of ideal dimensions obtained by \nexpanding the Constitutional Approach, although it does \nnot include direct health measures. Secon…
Benefits of rural-urban interactions for sustainable food security in Iran
Cities and rural areas, as two human settlements, have long interacted with each other, and these interactions have many benefits for producing better products and food security. However, despite the importance of benefits in rural-urban interaction, identifying, improving, and investing them in rural areas of Iran has always been neglected. Therefore, in addition to identifying the benefits of interactions, this study investigates the causal rel…
Disentangling the Relationship Between Social Protection and Social Cohesion
While there is substantial evidence of the effect of social protection on poverty and vulnerability, limited research has focused on societal outcomes. This paper serves as introduction to a special issue (SI) examining the relationship between social protection and social cohesion in low- and middle-income countries. Over the last years, social cohesion has emerged as a central goal of development policy. The introduction and the papers in the S…
Can Integrated Social Protection Programmes Affect Social Cohesion? Mixed-Methods Evidence from Malawi
Through a sequential mixed-methods approach, the paper investigates the effects of the different components of the Tingathe Economic Empowerment Programme (TEEP) on social cohesion in Malawi. The TEEP is an integrated social protection scheme offering to three different groups these services: a lump-sum transfer, a financial/business training connected to the creation of saving groups, and a combination of both. While other studies assessed the i…
Does economic growth reduce multidimensional poverty? Evidence from low- and middle-income countries
The long-standing tradition of empirical studies investigating the nexus between economic growth and poverty concentrates mainly on monetary poverty. In contrast, little is known about the relationship between economic growth and multidimensional poverty. Consequently, this study seeks to assess the elasticity of multidimensional poverty to growth, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The study employs two novel, individual-based multi…
Social Cohesion
Social cohesion is crucial to increasing societies’ resilience to shocks and to enabling sustainable futures. Amidst growing tensions and polarization in all world regions, social cohesion ranks high on the agendas of researchers, decision-makers and international organizations. Despite the strong interest in the topic, there are major constraints to understanding its patterns, causes and effects: the lack of a common conceptualization and measur…
Do public works programmes foster climate resilience? Conceptual framework and review of empirical evidence
Public works programmes (PWPs) are pervasively used to tackle poverty and unemployment, and to build infrastructure and skills in low‐ and middle‐income countries. While their impacts on poverty, food security and labour outcomes have been widely documented, there is little research focusing on the role of PWPs in supporting household climate resilience in the global context of a deepening climate crisis. To fill this gap, we propose a conceptual…
Gender Differences in Multidimensional Poverty in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries
Despite the growing demand for gender‐disaggregated statistics on poverty, there is hardly any cross‐country evidence of gender disparities in poverty. The paper contributes to filling this gap, by using two novel individual‐level indices of multidimensional poverty. Relying on data from 78 low‐ and middle‐income countries, it finds that almost everywhere female poverty exceeds male poverty. In the median country, female poverty is 58%–85% higher…
Economics (17 obras) · Economic growth (14 obras) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (14 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (10 obras) · Business (8 obras) · Poverty (8 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (6 obras) · Capability approach (5 obras)