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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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The privatization of agriculture in Azerbaijan started in the mid 1990s, while the pace of privatization in the country differs. Some Rayons have privatized almost all of the former state-owned agricultural land while others hold a wait and see strategy. The agricultural administration observes...
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Recently municipal household income has been estimated with spatial econometrics techniques explicitly including spatial autocorrelation in the econometric models. Spatial econometric tools have highly improved the explicative and predictive capacity of the models and more effort must be done in...
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Unlike aversion to inequality, aversion to poverty resists formalization in welfare economics. One way to assign … normative significance to the poverty line is to allow the welfare measure to exhibit a discrete loss from poverty (DLP) at z …
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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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, their distribution and poverty depend very crucially on the hypothesis made on the evolution of returns to education and …
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This paper shows the differences between how benefits are estimated and how they are distributed, calls attention to the policy variables that are crucial in explaining certain distributional outcomes, explores the importance of looking at the demand for characteristics when trying to benefit...
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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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The author argues that conversion of over 1 million hectares of customary land to leasehold land tenure merely endowed the elite with excessive landholdings they did not fully utilise for tobacco production because it exceeded the requirement for production of the quota of tobacco output...
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The purpose of this paper will be to study the evolution of inequality and poverty in Uruguay between 1989 and 1997. We … found that from 1991 there was an increase wage inequality in Uruguay and poverty changed little, decreased until 1993 and … little to poverty. …
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