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education coefficient. Households at risk of poverty are also taken into account. Income inequality is measured by way of the … coefficient, as well as between education and households at risk of poverty. The biggest share is represented by households where … negative dependence between the education level and number of households at risk of poverty. Within analyzed period of five …
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The problem of child labour is immense and has been growing. Wherever poverty exists, child labour there prevails and … children and point out the problems in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly poverty eradication … resource of knowledge for policymakers in the fields of education programme and poverty reduction programmes. An attempt is …
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Measurement error is an enormous problem in empirical work. In some types of analysis, it is often ignored for various reasons. In some others, however, it cannot be ignored because it affects the results of analysis significantly. We use a simple procedure to estimate the extent of measurement...
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Anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have caused atmospheric concentrations with no precedents in the last half a million years, inducing serious uncertainties about future climates and their effects on human welfare. Recent climate science supports the view that the climate...
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It assesses the impact of the expansion of educational levels on the distribution of wages between 1970 and 1984 in Metropolitan Lima in Peru. For this purpose it uses a dynamic decomposition of the second Theil's concentration index using data from household surveys. The results suggest that...
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As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
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Do poor people benefit more or less than the nonpoor from an expansion in access to public services? And do those benefits depend on the existing level of access? Answering these questions is essential to strategies for empowering (or “investing in”) poor people, but the lack of panel data...
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This paper analyses the relations between poverty, inequality and economic growth in Brazil. First of all, based on … recent research, it shows characteristics and historical evolution of inequality and poverty. These characteristics are not … growth and inequality on poverty and agree with both empirical evidences from recent papers and results found by those …
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effect of both health and education capital on economic growth and poverty at the district level in Indonesia. Second … comprehensive examination of the impacts of health on growth and poverty at the subnational level. Thus, this study is the first at … education capital in accelerating growth and poverty reduction efforts. The empirical findings are broadly encouraging. First …
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poverty in Pakistan. The study decomposes education of the household into different levels: primary, middle, matriculation …, intermediate, bachelors and higher studies and finds evidence that poverty is greatest among the less literate households and … severity of poverty is more pronounced in rural areas. The variables that are negatively related with the probability of being …
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