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household may be lifted out of or pushed into poverty. The impacts of trade on growth and longer-term consequences of trade …This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty … is significant heterogeneity in the poverty impacts of trade, both across households and countries. This highlights the …
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This paper studies the impact of migrant children on their parents' occupation choice and wage income using a dataset from a household survey conducted in 2011. We find that the heads of migrant households with school-age children earn significantly less than those who left them at their place...
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The transition to sustainable energy requires an assessment of drivers of the use of clean and dirty fuels for cooking. Literature highlights the importance of access to modern fuel for switching from dirty fuels. Though access to cleaner fuels such as electricity promotes clean fuel use, it...
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investment in higher education, thereby enhancing access and quality in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs … internationalization of education services, the role of trade agreements and their potential contribution to the SDGs have barely been … among policy objectives in support of the SDGs. …
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(MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It assesses the dramatic changes in the political, economic, and … business background from the early 2000s (shaping the MDGs) to the early 2010s (designing the SDGs). These changes rarely get … ignorance of the trade potential for a "better life" during the preparation of the SDGs (2013-2015). The paper also provides a …
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is on Goal 8, which is to "promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable growth, full and productive employment, and …
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The top 12 development journals published a total of 18,329 papers during the period 2000.2020. Out of these, just 51 focused on sanitation and related issues, which are the focus of this review. Results were mixed on the efficiency of sanitation delivery since political factors and...
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This paper examines dynamic measures of growth inclusiveness derived from growth incidence curves. These curves help … identify the extent to which each decile of households benefits from growth. The paper discusses the main features of growth … incidence curves, their design, computation, data requirements, and interpretation. The use of growth incidence curves is …
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(VSS), which are certified by third parties, has shown phenomenal growth over the past 20 years. But many stakeholders are …
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impact of financial literacy on poverty, which is a downstream welfare indicator. Consequently, we have constructed a … composite financial literacy index. Our results reveal that financial literacy plays an important role in reducing poverty. This …
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