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The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty in the context of … 1964–2011. The regression model encompassing the impact of economic growth and inequality on poverty reflects that a 1 …% increase in income while keeping the distribution constant reduces poverty around 0.162% in rural, 0.256% in urban, 0.471% in …
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This paper argues that the evaluation of a society's economic well-being should account for the employment risk associated with being a temporary worker and for the relative income loss of young generations with respect to older ones. We show that the inclusion of new measures of both these...
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This paper uses demographic data drawn from Wrigley et al.'s (1997) family reconstitutions of 26 English parishes to adjust Allen's (2001) real wages to the changing demography of early modern England. Using parity progression ratios (a fertility measure) and age specific mortality for children...
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This paper jointly and separately examines the redistributive and poverty effects of tax and public expenditures … sets of policies together, they are found to mainly reflect fiscal policies in that they are more progressive and poverty …-reducing when we use relative poverty lines, in rural areas, followed by semi-urban and urban areas, respectively. Though we also …
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. In this context it is important to review the role of ODA -traditionally linked to the reduction of poverty and …
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produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method, predicted welfare indicators for a set …
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policies, but at the same time poverty and inequality have remained high or have increased. Prospects are not encouraging for …
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progress is being made against poverty and inequality in the current period of “globalization.” This paper provides a non … evidence suggests that, if the rate of progress against absolute poverty in the developing world in the 1990s is maintained …, then the Millennium Development Goal of halving the 1990 aggregate poverty rate by 2015 will be achieved on time in the …
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