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examine the impact of natural disasters on Indonesian household welfare (consumption and poverty) using the Indonesian Family … devastating impacts of disasters and in lessening households’ vulnerability to poverty. The policy recommendations resulting from …
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Nowadays, poverty is one of the most important issues that needs due attention in many developing countries like … Ethiopia. Nonetheless, poverty in Ethiopia remains widespread in both rural and urban areas. Therefore, this study aimed to … examine the determinants and status of poverty in Berehet Woreda. The study was conducted using a cross-sectional survey. To …
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This study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on poverty reduction in Botswana from … 1980 to 2014. The main objective of this study is to establish whether FDI plays a positive role in poverty reduction. The … investigate the relationship. To ensure robustness, the study uses three poverty reduction proxies which are household consumption …
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Gender poverty differences in households are likely to affect female-headed households more than male-headed households …. This paper examined the evolution of the gender poverty rate gap and identified the factors that underlie differences in … poverty rates between female-headed households and male-headed households using the most recent representative household …
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This study has evaluated the impact of adoption of improved groundnut seed on the well-being of the farmers of Eastern Ethiopia using a cross-sectional data collected from 301 sample households. To address this objective, both descriptive and econometric analysis methods were employed. In the...
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This study investigates the causal relationship between poverty reduction and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows … of causality between FDI and poverty reduction, which is important to policy-makers as it identifies which variable to … study reveal a distinct unidirectional causality from poverty reduction to FDI in both the short run and the long run when …
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Least Square (OLS) and a Logit estimators were used to examine factors affecting household income and poverty incidence … household income and poverty eradication; wage employment is positively associated with poverty alleviation but not per capita … income; and only some types of land were positively related to income and poverty reduction. The findings suggest that …
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. This study aims to analyze the role and determinants of women's labor force participation for reducing household poverty in … order to analyze the effect of woman labor force participation to household poverty reduction, with the probability of a … confirms that women's participation reduces the household poverty. Therefore, this study recommends that household uses family …
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Fiscal federalism theorists have long been intrigued by the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty … provide new empirical evidence on the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty. It focuses on how the function … of institutional quality can explain the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty in 53 developing …
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The main purpose of this study is to establish the mediating role of financial intermediaries in the relationship between financial literacy and financial inclusion of the poor in developing countries with data from rural Uganda. The data for this study were analyzed using Partial Least Square...
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