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Sustainable economic growth and Poverty alleviation is a principal objective of the developing countries. The present … resource drain for already limited revenues and is halting economic growth and poverty reduction efforts. …
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is measured by the estimation of poverty, inequality and pro-poorness. The paper suggests that the upcoming ―Smart cities …
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Profit taxes are widely acknowledged to influence the location of firms' headquarters. This paper sheds light on the role of aspects of labor taxation for the international location of headquarters. While profit taxes can be avoided in various ways, it is much harder for firms to manipulate the...
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This paper studies the implications of introducing child care in the human capital production function when assessing the effects of labor income taxation on growth. We develop an OLG model where formal schooling and child care enter the human capital production function as complements and we...
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We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
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implemented one of the biggest poverty reduction programs entitled ‘Socio-economic Development for the Communes Facing Greatest …-capita income. A particularly important result is that poverty among minority households in treatment communes declined …
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We examine the relationship between growth in labor productivity and poverty reduction through the lens of changes in … the structure of output and employment. Combining state-level data from India on poverty with state-level data on output … productivity sector is an important channel through which increases in aggregate productivity translate into poverty reduction. We …
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The Pakistan's Poverty Reduction Strategy and the Draft Medium Term Development Framework recognize that the most … effective means of reducing poverty is through the creation of productive and remunerative employment. This paper examines how … analysis in a historical context the growth-employment -poverty nexus to show how employment and labor market developments have …
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Poverty is easily recognized when encountered "face to face," but when measured for a society as a whole it becomes … evasive and ambiguous, raising fundamental and practical issues. In this paper we examine several poverty measures from the … economic policy on poverty. A rational poverty-reduction policy requires a quantifiable poverty target which has a sufficiently …
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ominous messages for using equitable growth in fighting poverty. Rapid growing developing economies need to adopt appropriate …
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