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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 … detain while reducing the share of unskilled labor. The same applies for land. Finally, the model has a poverty module using … and is calibrated to a SAM of Ethiopia for the fiscal year 2005/06. The poverty module uses the 2005 Household Income and …
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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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This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality and poverty in China from 1987 to 2002 … agricultural income from the mid-1990s onward. Poverty persists, and tied in part to slow growth in agricultural commodity prices … restructuring have fueled the growth in inequality within urban areas. Poverty levels, however, are very low. China should give more …
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DAD is designed to facilitate the analysis and the comparisons of social welfare, inequality, poverty and equity across … reforms to these programs) on poverty and equity. …
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