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Remittances, Poverty and Income Inequality: What relations in rural Morocco?

Bouoiyour, Jamal; Miftah, Amal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

international institutions. In this paper, we examine the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality by using an original …For several decades the fight against poverty has become a major policy concern for national governments and … earnings under the assumptions of absence of migration and remittances before comparing it to the household income when the …

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The effects of remittances on poverty and inequality: Evidence from rural southern Morocco

Bouoiyour, Jamal; Miftah, Amal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In this paper, we examine the effect of migrants’ remittances on poverty and inequality. The survey data were collected … scenario without remittances; this is then compared with its current income. We find that the poverty rate and the … vulnerability of non-poor households are significantly dropped due to remittances. Our findings also suggest that remittance inflows …

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Poverty, Income Distribution and Social Development in Lahore

Hyder, Kalim; Sikander, Muhammad Usman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In this paper we present a comparative analysis of poverty and income inequality prevalent in the seven towns of Lahore …

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Impact evaluation of structural adjustment program: a case of Pakistan

Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Nawaz, Muhammad Atif; Hussain, Altaf - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We analyzed the effect of Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) on macroeconomic variables of Pakistan using annual time …

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A Test of the Stable Paretian Hypothesis for the Distribution of Income

Dale, Charles - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1985

Mandelbrot has recently proposed that the distribution of income might be described by a class of mathematical processes called Stable Paretian functions. These functions have many of the desirable properties of Gaussian distributions but they have infinite variance, which has implications for...

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Auge y estancamiento de Japón (1955-2008). Una explicación marxista.

Maito, Esteban Ezequiel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The present study analyzes the economic Japanese performance according to Marxist political economy. In that sense, an estimation of the valorization process categories is made: profit rate, surplus rate, value capital composition and turnover speed. The Japanese economy is passing through a...

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¿Desaparece la clase media en México?: Una aplicación de la polarización por subgrupos entre 1984 y 2000.

Huesca, Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This paper empirically applies the statistical approaches to the phenomenon of polarization generated by Esteban, et al. (1999) and Gradín (2000) in order to quantify the evolution of the middle class in Mexico and the role of various household attributes in the formation of groups during...

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Multiplier Decomposition, Poverty and Inequality in Income Distribution in a SAM Framework: the Vietnamese Case

Pansini, Rosaria Vega - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

the level of poverty and inequality to policy measures will be to derive the “accounting price multipliers matrix”, which …

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Are Returns to Capital Hitting New Historic Highs?

Tatom, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Some analysts believe that earnings of owners of capital are booming, setting new records. The basis of this view is that corporate profits, both before and after taxes, have been climbing in recent years as a percent of GDP. This has contributed to the view that workers are falling behind as...

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O impacto do aumento das exportações de álcool sobre a distribuição de renda do Brasil

Moreira, Guilherme Renato Caldo; Ichihara, Silvio Massaru; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The reduction of the use of biofuels is one of the main world-wide concerns, mainly had to the global heating. In this scene Brazil is one of the main combustible alcohol producer in the world, withholds the production technology commercialization and uses the alcohol on a large scale has more...

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