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"The authors analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components and emphasizing Gini and Atkinson indexes. They embed these inequality-adjusted social welfare functions...
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"Prevailing measures of relative poverty put an implausibly high weight on relative deprivation, such that measured poverty does not fall when all incomes grow at the same rate. This stems from the (implicit) assumption in past measures that very poor people incur a negligible cost of social...
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Thailand has made good progress in closing gender gaps in various dimensions, especially human capital development. However, the progress, though obvious, has not done much to get rid of the main deterrents discouraging Thai women from participating more actively in the labor market. Thailand's...
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This paper summarizes the findings of a study in rural load segregation for lighting rural India. The study focused on … (i) analyzing differences in approach to rural feeder segregation across states, (ii) assessing the financial viability … guidance note for a national action plan on rural load segregation. Traditionally, power supply to agriculture in India has …
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