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said that expanding educational facilities and improving quality of education are key instruments and reducing poverty is a … poverty and education and many more international studies revealed that improvement in education reducing poverty resulted in … regional balanced development. This paper aims to analyze the regional disparities in reducing poverty and increase in literacy …
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The impact of education on earnings and thus on poverty works largely through labour market. Along with some other … socio economic factors, education does play a crucial role to alleviate poverty. Better educated people has greater … to make an attempt to show how the universalization of education can be used as a tool to eradicate poverty in near …
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Poverty is multidimensional in nature. Poverty is associated not only with insufficient income or consumption but also … low self-esteem and powerlessness. Since poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon, measurement of poverty must cover many … have opened new perspectives on measuring and analysing poverty and development with the help of multidimensional concept …
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. The results attained and the evidence mobilized consistently show the interdependencies of health, education and poverty …
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This study examines the role of socio-demographic determinants on individual’s level of happiness. Primary survey data on Penang, Malaysia is used for analysis. Based on the findings, being married and Malay are associated with higher probability of feeling very happy or happy. Nevertheless,...
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In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled sector, successful graduation depends both on individual effort to study and on public resources. We show that insuring the present risks is a dichotomic task: Wage risk is...
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childhood poverty and changes that have taken place in the children’s lives between the earlier rounds of data collection in … are consistent economic growth, the development of programmes and policies to fight poverty, and the maintenance of … residence, ethnicity, maternal education, poverty and in some cases gender diminish over time through concerted policies and …
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We develop a model in which individuals choose education to improve their earnings and regulate the cultural traits they acquire via social transmission. When education makes individuals more receptive to mainstream culture, minority groups underinvest in education as a form of cultural...
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In this paper, we examine the consequences of imperfect information on the pattern of transfers from parents to children. Drawing on the theory of mechanism design, we consider a model of family contract with two levels of effort. We prove that equal transfers among children are expected under...
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This article deals with the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on poverty and education in Africa. It considers the scale …
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