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changes on employment, prices, consumption, and poverty. …
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Despite record economic growth in the decade that followed the fall of the Taliban regime, poverty remained stubbornly …
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This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that … confined to the poor within each population group (that is, "poverty targeted" transfers). The analysis finds that both the … incidence of poverty and the depth of the poverty gap are important factors affecting the relative effectiveness of categorical …
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pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …
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alleviate even the most extremes of poverty. In this sense, the pandemic is yet another reminder for how important investments …
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British or the Southern Greek financing system increases inequality and poverty, as well as labour supply incentives. The …
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Minimum wage increases are not a very effective mechanism for reducing poverty. They are not related to decreases in … poverty rates. They can cost some low-income workers their jobs. And most minimum wage earners who gain from a higher minimum … wage do not live in poor (or near-poor) families. A better tool for reducing poverty, and at lower cost, is the earned …
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To investigate how Covid-19 is shaping the way Europeans think about institutions, we conducted a large online survey experiment during the first wave of the epidemic (June). With a randomised survey ow we varied whether respondents are given Covid-related treatment questions first, before...
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In this study, we look at the association between COVID-19 fatality rate and internal conflict, highlighting the importance of government economic support under the pandemic as a moderating factor. Our main hypothesis implies that increased COVID-19 fatality rates are likely to be positively...
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Housing prices are rising faster than incomes in many areas of the world, reducing wellbeing and engendering social discontent. Passivity by municipal and national governments is no longer an option. In this essay, I will describe the tradeoffs between different housing policy objectives of...
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