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This paper is an application of multidimensional poverty data to the policy need to improve the effectiveness of the … of poverty, needs to be based on a good understanding of the nature of poverty among the target group. To this end, data …
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Using the experience of the Educational Quality Inputs (EQI) Scheme in Sri Lanka, the paper examines the distributional aspects of formula-based funding and efficiency of decentralized management of education funds in a developing country setting. The study finds that the EQI fund distribution...
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this paper is to take this discussion a step further by introducing the effect of textiles protection on poverty and its … increase in consumption for most households. Unskilled Indians are the only group to experience a reduction in poverty and … welfare increases in the short run. The average poverty gap and the squared poverty gap also follow the same pattern as …
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-led development, on food security, and on poverty in Ethiopia. It is line with the current five year development strategy of the …Agricultural activities have been and remain key for sustained growth and pro-poor development in Ethiopia. However … detain while reducing the share of unskilled labor. The same applies for land. Finally, the model has a poverty module using …
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instability. The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of regional integration on the country's labour market and poverty. We … negative effects on investment. Finally, the effects on poverty and income distribution obtained through microsimulations are …
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This study focused on the choice of functional forms and their parametrization (estimation of free parameters and calibration of other parameters) in the context of CGE models. Various types of elasticities are defined, followed by a presentation of the functional forms most commonly used in...
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in 2008. The program is focused on children aged 0 to 18 and aims at alleviating poverty and promoting school attendance … attendance, poverty, inequality and adult labour supply. Our ex-ante estimated effects indicate that teenage school attendance … attendance shows a progressive pattern. The program also significantly reduces extreme poverty, and to a lesser extent, the …
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, the poverty effects of these trading arrangements are not yet fully known. This paper, which uses a computable general … instrumental in reducing poverty in the country. It also shows that the relatively poor and less-skilled household groups, like … preferential and multilateral trade liberalization in order to help eradicate poverty. …
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This study investigates the impact of the gender of the household head on the determinants of monetary poverty in the … areas. The results show that there has not been any feminization of poverty since 1995. In 1999, the incidence of poverty … among female household heads was lower than that of their male-headed counterparts, but in some cities the poverty gap was …
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Income inequality and poverty are closely related. This study decomposed income inequality in Nigeria using the Gini … contributed to the increased income inequality. Between 1998 and 2004, income redistribution and income growth increased poverty …
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