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Effective provision of public goods is a key determinant of quality of life. Conventional approaches to poverty …
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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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This paper discusses the contribution made by American social scientists to thestudy of poverty in the past twenty five … years. It has three parts. The firstconcentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US povertyline remained … unchanged in that period despite its increasingly importantdeficiencies. Proposals to produce a revised poverty line and an …
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