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U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS), which serves as the basis for official poverty, unemployment, and earnings …
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reforms to the public sector. This paper uses household survey data from 1991, 1996 and 1998 to chart the evolution of poverty … the policies implemented and the observed changes in poverty and inequality. Our study finds a dramatic increase in … poverty and inequality in urban areas between 1991 and 1996 due to stabilisation, the removal of maize meal subsidies, and job …
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Anti-poverty programs often seek to improve their impact by targeting households for assistance according to one or … extent to which poverty is caused by fluctuations in welfare as well as the long-run level of welfare, using the IFPRI … the poverty impact of policies designed to increase mean incomes ('growth' policies) and those designed to even out …
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