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poverty by directly increasing household income. Using a panel of rural households in Mexico from October 1998 to November … reduce future consumption poverty we asked if transfers are likely to reach people whose conditions are prone to worsen in … the future. We used vulnerability to consumption poverty to quantify the extent to which risks and the more permanent …
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This paper uses data from the Nepal Living Standards Survey 2 (2003/2004) to find evidence to whether children are less … likely to work and more likely to attend school in a household where the mother has a say in the intra-family decision …
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case studies of Ghana and Nepal it argues that at present there is neglect of HI considerations in aid policy, which can be …
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This paper focuses on gender aspects upon children?s food security. Using data from the 1995/1996 Nepal Living …
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poverty reducti …
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This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that det
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Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed …
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This study examines the rise and fall in income inequality in Ecuador over the past two decades. Falling income equality during the 2000s partly coincides with the rise to power of a .new leftist. government, but the trend was already set early in the decade. The recent trend is mainly...
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