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Efficiency and equity are cornerstone concepts in rational service delivery in the public sector. This paper benchmarks efficiency and equity in public spending on health, education and social protection in a broad group of Asian Development Bank (ADB) member economies with varying levels of...
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inclusion on poverty and income inequality. The results provide evidence that high- and middle-high-income economies with high … financial inclusion have significantly lower poverty, while no such relation exists for middle-low and low-income economies. The … nonlinearities in the cross-country determinants and impacts of financial inclusion on poverty and income inequality across income …
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households out of poverty. Remittances thus may help in fighting poverty in the Philippines but not in rebalancing growth …
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Poverty reduction in the Asia and the Pacific region in 2005-2008 had been quite significant. Despite the global crisis …, an estimated 150 million people exited extreme poverty by 2008 - from 903.4 million in 2005 to 753.5 million, bringing … the percentage of people living under the $1.25 per day poverty line to 21.9% from 27.1% in 2005. Poverty reduction was …
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This paper examines the impacts of international remittances on household consumption expenditure and poverty in …, including poverty status. The first results show that remittances have positive effects on the economy and reduce poverty. It is …
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This study examines the potential of remittances for promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in Asian countries … poverty rate, but they tend to decrease the poverty gap and thereby ameliorate the depth of poverty. The estimates suggest … that a 10% increase in remittances decreases the poverty gap by about 0.7-1.4%. The paper also explores the robustness of …
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While the 2008 financial crisis is global in nature, it is likely to have heterogeneous welfare impacts within the developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts for some of those affected, notably through the...
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that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …
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The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …
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question by using new data on such variables as the skill composition of migrants, poverty, and interest and exchange rates to … countries which export a larger proportion of low-skilled migrants. It also finds that the level of poverty in a labor …
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