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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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Poverty, Inequality and Permeability to Globalization Effects : A Study of Select Villages in Udalguri Subdivision of Assam
Mishra, SK; Daimari, Prasen - EconWPA - 2005
Globalization is a deliberate decision to open up a national economy to the forces of product, factor and money markets, followed by a sequence of requisite policies and actions. The Indian economy shed off its 40- year long license and quota regime and went in for globalization in the early...
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Human Development and Electoral Systems
Gassner, Marjorie; Ontiveros, Darwin Ugarte; Verardi, … - EconWPA - 2005
The aim of this paper is to test if electoral systems and human development are linked. Using high quality data and very simple panel data econometric techniques, we show that electoral systems play a critical role in explaining the difference in the levels of human development between...
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Trade Liberalisation and Poverty in Nepal A Computable General Equilibrium Micro Simulation Analysis
Cockburn, John - EconWPA - 2004
with income level, resulting in rising income inequality. …
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CIRCULAR VARIABLE WORK IN PROCESS
Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2002
This work is focused on identifying a circular pull production control system (PPCS) and make emphasis on the presence of a stability attribute. It is an introductory paper to an extended study of macroeconomic financial stability in a physically open but systemic closed system. Previous work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126234
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CAPITAL SOCIAL Y CALIDAD DE VIDA
Vivas, Alejandro; Acevedo, Alberto Alvarado - EconWPA - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134598
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Income Fluctuations, Poverty and Well-Being Over Time: Theory and Application to Argentina
Cruces, Guillermo - EconWPA - 2005
This paper studies poverty as a dynamic phenomenon, motivated by the recurring economic crises that affect developing countries and the incidence of income fluctuations on household welfare. While the increasing availability of household panel data has been exploited in theoretical analysis and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408367
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Nutritional Aspects of Poverty among Casual Labourer Households in Shillong (India)
Mishra, SK; Lyngskor, JW - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper we report our findings as to the extent of poverty among the casual labourers of Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, India. Two views of poverty have been considered; first at the per capita (per month) income level and the second at the nutritional level. Nutritional level has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556229
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Enterprise, Growth and Inequality in the Rural Economy of Assam : A Study of Seven Villages in Udalguri Subdivision
Daimari, Prasen; Mishra, SK - EconWPA - 2005
villages are frugal. Lastly, there is a more acute inequality in income distribution in the Group-2 villages than in the Group …-1 villages. This inequality is the result of agricultural growth that has come to a few resourceful and enterprising … farmers in the Group-2 villages. Agricultural development often results into enhancement of inequality. It is not scale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556252
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A Study on Structure of the Economy of Udalguri Sub-Division, Assam (India)
Daimari, Prasen; Mishra, SK - EconWPA - 2005
In this study we make an attempt to visualize the structure of the economy of Udalguri Subdivision of Assam, India. The structure of an economy comprises the characteristic features of and the interrelationships among its constituent parts and subsystems. These characteristic features and...
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