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La formación de Capital social es un factor clave para el desarrollo de programas y proyectos dirigidos a la superación de la pobreza. La investigación hace explícitos los factores asociados a la generación de capital social en un proyecto de desarrollo llevado a cabo en un barrio pobre de...
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It has been noted that failure to meet the target set by government for reducing the head count ratio of child poverty … argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this apology for the failure of government to meet poverty targets …
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(if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … poverty solely and not with inequality is internally inconsistent. …
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(if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … poverty solely and not with inequality is internally inconsistent. …
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This paper is about the relationship among poverty, inequality and economic growth. It makes an analysis using income … stress the importance of work income in determining the levels of inequality and poverty as a mean to traduce the results of …
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This paper considers the dynamics of child income poverty in New Zealand. Annual movements into and out of poverty by … research on family dynamics.New Zealand adult and child poverty transitions are compared. Child poverty transitions in New … similar current income measure of poverty is available. The frequency of poverty “trigger events” in New Zealand and their …
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This paper postulate two poverty indices based on a fuzzyfication of the poverty line approach and shows that they … satisfy some of the usual axioms in the poverty line literature. It also shows that the headcount ratio is a particular case … of a poverty measure based on fuzzy sets. Finally this paper postulates that fuzzy version of poverty measures will not …
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This paper presents an economic model of individual crime decision relying on relative deprivation and discusses the role of education. It distinguishes between property and interpersonal crime and proposes an econometric estimation of the model for 723 municipalities of Minas Gerais, one of the...
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We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international, intertemporal, and global comparisons of well-being. The conclusions emerging from the analysis are that our well-being measures drastically change our impression of levels of...
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We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake intertemporal and global comparisons of well-being. The conclusions emerging from the intertemporal analysis are that the impact of these measures on temporal trends in well-being is...
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