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In the wake of the 2008 food crisis, prices of food staples in Senegal rose, with a new wave driven by international price shocks and a decline in productivity; these effects caused sub-optimal performance in the agricultural sector. This paper attempts to identify the implications of these...
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This module illustrates how poverty can be defined in the context of policy impact analysis. After reporting and discussing the definition of poverty as “the lack of, or the inability to achieve, a socially acceptable standard of living”, it discusses the mono-dimensional and...
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This paper examines the relationship between relative income inequality and health in Finland, using individual … microdata over the period 1993-2005. Our data allows us to analyse a large spectrum of health indicators. Overall, our results … negatively related to the probability of good physical health and no disability retirement. For men, relative income inequality …
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with insufficient outcomes with respect to health, nutrition, and literacy and deficient social relations, insecurity, and … deprivation in different dimensions for example income, health and education. The human development and human deprivation studies …
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In this paper, the trend and determinants of health and poverty among the elderly in rural India is analysed. Two …-96 and 2004 while increased proportion of elderly with poor health status is continued. Results suggest that poverty is one … of the key determinants of health among elderly in rural India. …
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force was involved in agriculture. Yet, even the least developed countries are affected by rapidly accelerating rural …
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This study aims to investigate the role of economic growth and inflation in explaining the prevalence of poverty in … poverty, economic growth, inflation, investment and trade openness over the period of 1972-2008. Empirical results show that … economic growth and investment have negative and inflation has positive impact on poverty. The effect of trade openness on …
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Indian economy has been recording impressive growth rates since 1991. This can be partly attributed to the multi-sector structural reforms aimed at enhancing productivity, efficiency and international competitiveness of the economy. The reforms have been undertaken gradually with mutual consent...
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development and agriculture development where as Eritrea, a young nation still striving hard to develop these areas and thus …
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This paper measures the impacts of cash crops on household consumption expenditure and poverty in rural Viet Nam using data from the Viet Nam household living standards surveys (VHLSSs) of 2002 and 2004. It has been found that revenues from cash crops have positive and statistically significant...
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