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shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …
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reduces the poverty effect of the external shock. Even the significant short-run macroeconomic expansion that occurs without … wage indexation does not translate into significant poverty alleviation, which is due to the fact that the real value of …
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income. Hence effective education policies should be an essential component of any poverty-reduction strategy. …
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. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …
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with other socioeconomic and government policy variables affect food security. Food security and poverty are interlinked …
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relevant for further processing, for example poverty calculations, but surveyed explicitly in another (source) survey, not … latently observed in the surveys typically used for poverty calculation. It is explicitly captured in the social survey, which … is not suitable for poverty measurement. This procedure is useful for ex-post enhancement of survey data in general. …
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selects on household income. We model whole-household migration and its impacts on income inequality and poverty using a … poverty based on the remaining sample are not necessarily biased. This finding is similar to those in previous research on the … effects of attrition on panel data studies. We also analyze the changes in inequality and poverty due to whole …
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poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … economic growth is crucial for poverty reduction. Higher per capita incomes tend to favour poverty reduction, while higher …
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This paper investigates the effects of oil financed public investment on poverty using a dynamic multisectoral general … which favor nontradable activities over export agriculture and manufacturing thereby increasing rural and national poverty … growth, and poverty is less straightforward than simple models of the "resource curse" suggest. Taking Ghana as a stylized …
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, growth generated by the boom reduces poverty despite increasing informality. …
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