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Income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a … measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992–2010. Changes in these measures are …
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Economic growth is a driving force in reducing poverty, but experience has shown that good governance and pro …-poor choices are vitally important in the process of alleviating poverty. This paper explores linkages between governance and pro … the lowest percentile as compared to other countries. The dimensions of pro-poor growth, which include poverty, inequality …
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per capita income, poverty would reduce by l'206 percent' As for the importance of income sourccs in poverty reduction …, the poverty elasticity indicates in-kind income, while the poverty reform index indicates rural non-form income and urban … salary and farm-income as the most important income components in poverty reduction. …
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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 … growth and human development to sustainable development; the effect of nonfarm incomes to growth, poverty reduction, and …
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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 … growth and human development to sustainable development; the effect of nonfarm incomes to growth, poverty reduction, and …
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This study extends the literature on the relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction by differentiating … growth and poverty into their sectoral compositions and locations. We find that growth in the rural services sector reduces … poverty in all sectors and locations. However, in terms of elasticity of poverty, urban services growth has the largest for …
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health facilities, education outcome, health outcome, voice, as well as income and consumption. We believe this is the first …
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due to the price hikes in the early 1970s. We investigate the causal relations between real money and real income, between … nominal money and nominal income, and between nominal money and prices using the annual data set from 1959-60 to 2003 … of income, the study finds the feedback mechanism of money, which is generally missing in the earlier studies probably …
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of reliable and readily available price and income elasticities of demand to base these on, especially for domestic use … fuels are estimated for both urban and rural areas by different income groups. These can be used to evaluate recent and …
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earn income in the future. In this sense, directing education expenditures to the poor holds a promise for breaking the … inter-generational transmission of poverty. Given this perspective, the paper addresses the question : to what extent has …
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