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We analyze a simple and tractable model of occupational choice in the presence of credit marketimperfections. We examine the effect of parameters governing technology and transaction costs, andhistory, in terms of the initial wealth distribution, in determining the long-term wealth...
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socialpolicies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined.The limitations of a social policy that is …Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable andnoted feature of Chinese society. The paper … approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty andinequality are considered.[...] …
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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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negative association with inequality and poverty. ICTs andtelephony infrastructures.association with corruption, inequality and … associated with three development outcomes: corruption, inequalityand poverty. Of the media variables, newspapers are observed to … have a robustnegative association with both corruption and inequality. Radios and TVs are alsoobserved to have a robust …
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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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