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Trade, Poverty and Employment: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan
Majeed, M Tariq - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
empirical analysis builds on four indicators of economic development that are per capita GDP, inequality, poverty and employment … positive while its effect on employment is negative. Although trade theory predicts that trade openness is the potential source …
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A quarter of a century: mobility and stagnation in India’s rural labour market
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Transformation of the countryside from agrarian subsistence economy to non-farm monetised economy is propagated as a precursor of growth and development and involves shifting of labour from farming to off-farm activities. India has started its journey in this path but has a long way to go....
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Youth employment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Filmer, Deon; Fox, M. Louise - 2014
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From education to work : a difficult transition for young adults with low levels of education
De Broucker, Patrice (contributor) - 2005
education, and how immigrants overcome the cultural and language gaps to find employment.--Publisher's description …
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From Education to Work : A Difficult Transition for Young Adults with Low Levels of Education
2005
education, and how immigrants overcome the cultural and language gaps to find employment. …
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Attainment and labour market outcomes among young tertiary graduates
OECD - 2016
falls to 39% among 55-64 year-olds. Employment prospects tend to improve with tertiary attainment levels: the average … employment rate of 25-34 year-olds with a doctorate is 88%, for those with a master’s or equivalent degree it is 84% and for … attainment is not associated with improved employment prospects among 25-34 year-olds, except for doctorate holders. In other …
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Poverty and Access to Maternal Health Care Services in Pakistan: Evidence from Perception Based Data
Haq, Rashida; Arshad, Nabeela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Pakistan is on its way to achieving the targets of the fifth Millennium Development Goal in terms of reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015. However, the rate of decline needs to speed up over the next decade as Pakistan has a high Maternal Mortality Ratio...
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Relative Deprivation in China
Chen, Xi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Relative deprivation (RD), also known as relative poverty , an idea implicitly put forward by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations and formally conceptualized by Runciman (1966), refers to the discontent people feel when they compare their positions to others and realize that others in the group...
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Poverty and Health in India: A Comparative Study about Pre-Reform and Post-Reform Periods
sarvalingam, a; sivakumar, marimuthu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In India, Economic Reforms has been explicitly started in 1991. Even with some controversy in the initial period now it intruded in almost all the sectors. At present days economic reforms is mingled with every sphere of economic activities. But the effects of economic reforms are highly...
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Human Deprivation Index: A Measure of Multidimensional Poverty
Sivakumar, Marimuthu; Sarvalingam, A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Poverty is multidimensional in nature. Poverty is associated not only with insufficient income or consumption but also with insufficient outcomes with respect to health, nutrition, and literacy and deficient social relations, insecurity, and low self-esteem and powerlessness. Since poverty is a...
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