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The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in … one set of indicators that capture the extension of lived poverty, that is what percentage of the respondents, experiences … deprivation, but we also develop a series of indicators that capture the severity of lived poverty, that is how frequently …
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The purpose of the chapter is to analyze Africa's economic successes in the past half century, to understand not only what made it possible but also and more importantly what risk factors may eventually bring it to an end or compromise it. While it may not be possible for Africa to alter, for...
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This study provides thresholds of inequality that should not be exceeded if gender inclusive education is to enhance gender inclusive formal economic participation in sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalised Method of Moments and data from 42 countries during the...
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, conceptual and empirical contributions which address relevant areas that enhance extant knowledge on linkages between poverty …
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able to achieve inclusive growth as dependency ratio, poverty and depletion of natural capital is very high. Also, health … incidence of poverty to the barest minimum to ensure that growth becomes inclusive. …
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Motivated by a recent World Bank report on achieving of Millennium Development Goals which shows that poverty has been …
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This study assesses the nexus between bribery and poverty, contingent on the macroeconomic environment within the remit … regression. The results reveal that while poverty has a positive effect on the spread of bribery, inflation can mitigate the … words, the attendant results indicate that the impact of poverty on bribery becomes negative when inflation increases. The …
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its connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock … interacts with these structural forces and ascertaining whether it enhances or hinders medium-term poverty reduction. In … particular, they consider the interactions between the migration of labor out of agriculture, a potentially important poverty …
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dropped substantially in all regions with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa. We assess if poverty is in the African gene by … diversity. Hence, poverty is not in the African gene from a within-Africa comparative standpoint. Policy implications are …
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