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dimension. Children do not attend school regularly, and even if they do, they do not learn very much because of a range of … of teachers and quality of schools. Once children reach school, a variety of factors determine whether they will continue … formal education. If and when children do drop out due to poverty/migration, rigid gender roles or other economic factors …
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This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and … inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, within-village extended family networks in 504 poor …
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This paper provides estimates of the costs of organic agriculture (OA) programs, and sets them in the context of the costs of attaining the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It analyzes the costs of OA programs in four case studies: Wanzai, PRC; Wuyuan, PRC; Kandy, Sri...
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rural poor into school. It documents how the objects of policy – rural poor children and parents - are ‘seen’ by the …This paper explores the efforts of government to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty. It focuses on …
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Poverty is one of the factors which contribute for the child labour but it is not the only factor, there are other … children for work. When one compares the financial contribution of children with their cost of living in the family, the cost …
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from an NGO-run school in Calcutta to illustrate the role of a school child’s sense of ‘belonging’ in determining how …
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include economic growth, local poverty, and inequality, all of which are generally believed to accelerate the process. Of …
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This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data … sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty distribution among various localities and …
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two are inter-connected. It discusses policy alternative policies to counter extreme poverty and inequality. The paper …The paper studies the relation between globalization, inequality and marginalization, within and across nations. It … reviews the existing evidence on globalization and global inequality and argues, using a simple theoretical model, that the …
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trends in world income inequality, it examines first the ‘growth’ conduit through which globalization affects poverty …. Treating inequality as the explicit filter between growth and poverty reduction, the causal chain of openness-growth-inequality-poverty …The paper offers a critical literature review of the debate surrounding the globalization- poverty nexus, focusing on …
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