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years. It has three parts. The firstconcentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US povertyline remained …This paper discusses the contribution made by American social scientists to thestudy of poverty in the past twenty five … unchanged in that period despite its increasingly importantdeficiencies. Proposals to produce a revised poverty line and an …
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We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures ofincome risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as asource of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution tototal income risk of demographic and labour market factors....
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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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