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Greece - Learning Poverty Brief, 2022

World Bank - 2022

All children should be able to read by age 10. Reading is a gateway for learning as the child progresses through school - and conversely, an inability to read constrains opportunities for further learning. Reading proficiency is also critical for foundational learning in other subjects. In low-...

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Poverty and Inequality in Rural Assam An Indicative Study of Seven Villages in Udalguri Subdivision, Assam (India)

Mishra, SK; Daimari, Prasen - EconWPA - 2005

This study is based on primary data collected from randomly chosen 182 households inhabiting seven sample villages in the Udalguri subdivision, Assam (india). It indicates that at least 35.85 percent of the population (and 33.52 percent of households) in the sample villages is below poverty line...

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Why we all do care about inequality (but are loath to admit it)

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed … (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with …

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Education and its poverty-reducing effects : the case of Paraiba, Brazil

Verner, Dorte - 2004

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Pobreza, Deforestación y Pérdida de la Biodiversidad en Guatemala

Loening, Ludger J.; Markussen, Michael - EconWPA - 2003

This paper explores the causes of deforestation and biodiversity loss in Guatemala and is organized into 4 parts. First, an overview about deforestation in Guatemala from 1950-2000 is provided, and the relationship between deforestation and biodiversity loss is explored. Secondly, some...

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Pobreza, Deforestación y Pérdida de la Biodiversidad en

Loening, Ludger J.; Markussen, Michael - EconWPA - 2003

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Pobreza, Deforestación y Pérdida de la Biodiversidad en

Loening, Ludger J.; Markussen, Michael - EconWPA - 2003

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Who Are Schooled in Urban Pakistan?

Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Ali, Karamat - EconWPA - 2005

Pakistan is severely disadvantaged by its failure to achieve higher levels of human development. Low enrolment thirty years ago is reflected in the lower educational level of today’s labor force, lower productivity and lower adaptation of technology. Even today less than half of the school-age...

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