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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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structural modelling of the impacts of specific trade reforms. Case studies are presented for China and Morocco. Both the macro …
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children, at risk of growing up poor and, in turn, passing their poverty on to their children. 100 million are older people … and long-term poverty, and to reduce vulnerability, and are thus one of the most significant areas of policy for …
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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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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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Health data, poverty, and inequality exist in a complex global co-dependency, therefore making meaningful comparisons … uncounted. Alternative strategies are needed to fill in inequitable gaps in data. Poverty either in physical terms or in data …
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is relatively small, except in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Income and inequality elasticities of poverty change …The impact of globalization on global and local inequality is hotly debated in the recent literature. This study … considers the separate issue of the impact of globalization on poverty through quantifying explicitly the responsiveness of …
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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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poverty and inequality. This paper uses the sharp trade liberalization in India in 1991, spurred to a large extent by external … factors, to measure the causal impact of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in districts in India. Variation in …
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