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-being of children aged 5–8 years old in Vietnam, using indicators of household poverty, per capita consumption expenditure, and …
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Multidimensional poverty and inequality of opportunity are closely interconnected concepts. Equality of opportunity … achieved, a child will be able to overcome multidimensional poverty and deprivation. Using the information collected in Peru … during the first two rounds of the Young Lives longitudinal study, we describe how multidimensional poverty and inequality of …
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Measurements of child poverty are commonly carried out using household expenditure data in per capita terms or adjusted … coefficients estimated from the data to assess child poverty in Vietnam. By doing so, we show child poverty in Vietnam to be … implicit household income distribution. Therefore, we used these techniques to estimate child poverty and patterns of resource …
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Due to the acknowledgment that children deserve special focus in poverty measurement, the measurement of child poverty … development of child poverty approaches. A range of approaches has been developed in the last decade to meet the need for a … of child poverty and well-being. We conclude that there are no perfect approaches for the measurement of child poverty …
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Child poverty can be measured using approaches that aim to make cross-country comparisons on a regional or global scale … or to capture a country’s specific poverty context. The first can be referred to as a global approach and the second as a … country-specific approach. These underlying rationales for the design and use of a child poverty approach have great …
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and poverty reduction. The organization of the paper is as follows. Section 2 makes a brief review of the economic … section argues that the superior economic performance (in terms of economic growth and poverty reduction) of the authoritarian …
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poverty during 1996-2006. Using the National Socioeconomic Characterization panel survey data, we adopt the Chaudhuri et al …
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implemented one of the biggest poverty reduction programs entitled ‘Socio-economic Development for the Communes Facing Greatest … important result is that poverty among minority households in treatment communes declined significantly more than it declined in …
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implemented one of the biggest poverty reduction programs entitled ‘Socio-economic Development for the Communes Facing Greatest …-capita income. A particularly important result is that poverty among minority households in treatment communes declined …
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Indian economic development in the recent period has attracted both favourable and unfavourable attention abroad. The development community including academics and activists regards the record of the Indian economy during the last twenty years as being extremely good by international standards....
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