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Welfare in Transition: Trends in Poverty andWell-being in Central Asia

Falkingham, Jane - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

limited to standardeconomic measures of poverty based on incomes or expenditures,but also include trends in selected … faring under increasingmarketisation; demographic-based measures – reflecting individualand household expectations and … thepopulation is now living in poverty. Real wages have fallen,joblessness has increased, school enrolment has dropped andgeneral …

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Income Transfers to the Elderly in East Asia:Testing Asian Values

Kwon, Huck-ju - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia. It tries to test whetherfamilial arrangement according to Confucian ethics, which are still takenseriously in East Asia, secures the minimum standards of living for theelderly....

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Wages, Prices, and Living Standards in China, 1738-1925: in Comparison with Europe, Japan and India

Allen, Robert C.; Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Ma, Debin; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This paper develops data on the history of wages and prices in Beijing, Canton, Suzhou/Shanghai in China from the eighteenth century to the twentieth and compare them with leading cities in Europe, Japan and India in terms of nominal wages, the cost of living, and the standard of living. In the...

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Evolution of Living Standards and Human Capital in China in 18-20th Century: Evidences from Real Wage and Anthropometrics

Baten, Jörg; Ma, Debin; Morgan, Stephen L.; Wang, Qing - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This article mobilizes and integrates both existing and new time series data on real wages, physical heights and age-heaping to examine the long-term trend of living standards and human capital for China during the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Our findings confirm the existence of a...

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The World Economy In The 1990s: A Long Run Perspective

Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

in transport and communication costs and also by policy choices. Table 1 reports an increase in world merchandise exports …

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New Cycles of Disadvantage?

Lee, Anthony; Hills, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

This report summarises presentations and discussion at a conference on ‘New Cycles ofDisadvantage’ organised by CASE on behalf of the Economic and Social Research Councilfor the Treasury and other central government departments. It took place at Stoke RochfordHall near Grantham on 27-28...

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Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil

Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2011

-based measures of social transfers, public good provision,infrastructure, and household income increase less (if at all) than one …

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Comparing incomes when needs differ: Equivalisation forthe extra costs of disability in the UK

Zaidi, Asghar; Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

Equivalisation of incomes for household size and composition is acceptedpractice when measuring poverty and inequality … theory is that a household’s standard of livingis a function of income and needs. The extra costs of disability can be … possible source of additional needs: disability. Using twoUK household surveys, we seek to establish whether there are extra …

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