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Urban poverty, which is distinct from rural poverty due to demographic, economic and political aspects remain hitherto unexplored, at the city level in Pakistan. We have examined the determinants of urban poverty in Sargodha, a medium-size city of Pakistan. The analysis is based on the survey of...
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Is household income enough for human development or should government direct resources towards the provision of social services to improve capabilities of individuals? The former is emphasised by the World Bank, and the latter by the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP). This paper tests...
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The study proposes an alternative means to the present manner of identifying eligible Philhealth beneficiaries through the use of three criteria, namely : income, ownership of assets and socioeconomic characteristics, and electricity consumption. The information/data gathered in evaluating the...
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Although consumption expenditure data is crucial for assessing the level of peoples welfare and calculating important welfare measures such as the poverty headcount rate, collecting such data requires significant time and effort. In this study, we experiment with three approaches to predict...
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This paper shows how large family size can be an important contributor to household poverty. It presents results from recent research by the author using nationally representative household survey data that demonstrate clearly how large family size can contribute to poverty and vulnerability...
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New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data analyses the variations in height among adult women. The main findings show that regional level...
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inequality; and the importance of institutions to growth. Local development experience also reveals the interrelatedness of the …; the role of health to human capital; the significance of human capital to poverty and inequality; the value of human …
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the lowest percentile as compared to other countries. The dimensions of pro-poor growth, which include poverty, inequality … inequality have worsened and the share in income and expenditure for the bottom 20 percent has also decreased, while inflation … that there is a strong relationship between good governance and reduction in poverty and inequality. It is concluded that …
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poverty has decreased but inequality has increased between these years. The main problems in the state are stark inter …
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This study provides an overview of inequality in Indonesia for the period of 1984 to 2002 using several widely used … measurements of inequality. Firstly, unlike previous studies, our paper uses real consumption expenditure that takes into account … measures indicate a decrease in inequality, it actually increased for those below the poverty line. Finally, this study also …
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