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This report is the result of a rapid assessment of the first phase of the direct cash transfer program that is one part of the fuel subsidy reduction compensation program that is provided to poor households. The early observation and assessment of the administration of this program was needed in...
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- on poverty in Pakistan using a CGE framework. It is found that tariff reduction in the absence of a decline in … remittances reduces poverty, as measured by the head count, poverty gap, and severity ratios (FGT indicators) in both the rural … year. According to all FGT indicators, poverty increases in urban households but not in rural households. The combined …
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The aim of this paper is to examine if tobacco consumption crowds-out consumption of basic needs and whether it has implications for nutrition intake and intra-household resource allocation in developing countries. In the process we also examine whether preference over other commodities for...
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capital city is positively associated with better governance and more redistribution (proxied by post-tax inequality), in OLS … propose that population plays a similar role in guaranteeing the quality of governance and redistribution. We argue and … threat to a dictatorship, inducing it to yield to more redistribution and better governance. We bring this centered concept …
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measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992–2010. Changes in these measures are … separated into rural and urban regions. We find that the PRC has grown rapidly with increasing inequality accompanying this …
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; the role of health to human capital; the significance of human capital to poverty and inequality; the value of human …Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty … infrastructure to growth; the significance of growth, infrastructure and human development to poverty reduction; the contribution of …
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; the role of health to human capital; the significance of human capital to poverty and inequality; the value of human …Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty … infrastructure to growth; the significance of growth, infrastructure and human development to poverty reduction; the contribution of …
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the lowest percentile as compared to other countries. The dimensions of pro-poor growth, which include poverty, inequality … that there is a strong relationship between good governance and reduction in poverty and inequality. It is concluded that …-poor policies, which ultimately reduce poverty and inequality in the long run. To face the challenge of good governance, Pakistan …
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poverty has decreased but inequality has increased between these years. The main problems in the state are stark inter …This paper attempts a decomposition analysis of Poverty scenario in UP during 1993-94 and 2004-05. It was found that … Bundelkhand, is making relatively impressive progress in poverty reduction. The study also tries to highlight the way anti-poverty …
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This paper presents a few of the latest statistics on income poverty, growth and inequality, and makes a case about the … need not only to monitor current poverty, but also to reduce future poverty. An assessment of the trends in household … vulnerability to income poverty is made for the years 2000, 2003, and 2006. Measurement of household vulnerability is based on the …
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