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This paper documents the convergence of incomes across Indian states over theperiod 1965 to 1998. It departs from traditional analyses of convergence by trackingthe evolution of the entire income distribution, instead of standard regression and timeseries analyses. The findings reveal twin-peaks...
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The construction industry is important for Chinese rural to urban migrants. Over 90%of urban construction workers are rural migrants, and over a third of all rural migrantswork in construction. The construction industry is not only particularly important, butis also different from other...
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explore a plausible route of causationbetween nutrition and poverty, the most urgent task is to disregard the …
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Poverty.[...] …
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revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …
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associated with three development outcomes: corruption, inequalityand poverty. Of the media variables, newspapers are observed to … negative association with inequality and poverty. ICTs andtelephony infrastructures.association with corruption, inequality and … poverty aremixed. There is some robust evidence of the negative association of ICT expenditureswith corruption. An ICT index …
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to children in theUS, I discuss various features of US society and institutions includingthe measurement of poverty …
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local area when growingup, on earnings capacity and poverty risk once they reach adulthood.[...] …
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’s Legal Aid systemand the concurrent pursuit of progressive anti-poverty, social inclusion,community regeneration, and human … aneffective engine of social inclusion and fighting poverty throughinsuring and expanding rights to critical benefits and services …
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This paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship betweenaggregate poverty and unemployment in Great … Britain. We derive aframework based on individuals’ risks of unemployment and poverty,and how these vary over the economic … matters for poverty – with the macropicture — that there’s no strong link. We then go on to identify whichhousehold and …
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