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much new work has been devoted to deriving and extending decomposable inequality and poverty measures which bridge the … partition inequality into within-race group and between-race group components. This paper pushes such a programme by using a … determining overall income inequality. …
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Following decades of sustained economic growth during which Uganda made dramatic progresstowards poverty reduction, the country has recently experienced a period of economic growthslow down. To return to higher rates of economic growth and poverty reduction, the Government mustaddress...
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Liberia is one of the most forested countries in West Africa, with more than two thirds of its land surface covered by forest. The National Forest Inventory, conducted by the Liberia Forestry Development Authority in 2018 and 2019, estimates the forest cover in Liberia to be 6.69 million...
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A number of researchers have recently proposed a variety of different `vulnerability'measures designed to capture the welfare consequences of risk for poor households, and also proposed a variety of different approaches to estimating these various measures of household vulnerability. However,...
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This paper brings together some of the empirical work conducted by IFPRI researchers which investigates linkages among the degree of consumption insurance, households'vulnerability to poverty, and household use of formal and informal coping mechanisms using the same empirical approach in five...
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drives children into work. It is argued here that a negative income elasticity only tells us that child leisure (or education …
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This paper surveys 11 international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution, and the elderly. Although it focuses on OECD economies, some 44 countries are covered. The paper addresses a series of questions. What level are the incomes of the elderly relative to the population as a...
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relative wages that have underlined the rise in earnings inequality. The paper finds that the widening of earnings distribution … was concentrated in the early phase of transition, and the trend towards greater inequality in most countries tapered off … characterized by high but not exorbitant earnings dispersion. In most transitional economies of Central Europe earnings inequality …
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