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This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …
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The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income shares affect human well-being. This study combines the latest data to examine the relationship...
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constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of constitutional language of the economic and social rights matter … important results. First, we do not find an association between constitutional rights generally framed and poverty. Second, we … do not find an association between economic and social rights framed as directive principles and poverty. Third, we do …
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and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life … period and by the most conservative definition, over 120 million additional years were spent in poverty because of the … poverty burden, on the contrary, declines with per capita national incomes when a constant absolute poverty line is used, or …
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, if any, evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of … subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher temperature to increase poverty. This finding is robust to various model ….1 percent increase in the headcount poverty rate, using the US$ 1.90 daily poverty threshold. Regional heterogeneity exists …
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This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …
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This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a …-level investment is also negatively related to several measures of poverty. Overall, our results indicate that firm-level capital … reducing inequality and poverty. Our results may also be beneficial to policy makers as they consider a variety of regulatory …
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warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies … consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … poverty than transient poverty. The results are robust to different model specifications and measures of chronic poverty and …
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the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …
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), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The … world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set … of national poverty lines that define the $1.25 line in 2005 PPPs, and if the 2011 PPP conversion factors are used …
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