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current macroeconomic trends and describes how the poverty profile could influence policy reforms. …
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current macroeconomic trends and describes how the poverty profile could influence policy reforms. …
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poverty over time, but this was mainly due to the adoption of a relative measure of poverty and to comparability issues … between the surveys. The task of assessing the trends in poverty and inequality was also made more difficult because the unit … necessary to estimate poverty and inequality using group data. In this paper, we use the Poverty module of SimSIP in order to …
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, one in three persons living in poverty today might not be poor had it not been for the conflict. …
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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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Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
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This analytical review explores the links between growth, poverty and inequality in Sudan for the period 1956 … GDP per capita growth- and inequality as measured by Gini coefficient (the growth, inequality and poverty triangle …) whether growth, inequality and poverty are cointegrated, ii( whether growth Granger causes inequality, iii) and whether …
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Notably, the 20th century was dominated by the legacy of devastating global wars, colonial struggles, and ideological conflicts as well as effort s to establish international systems that would foster global peace and prosperity. Yet, insecurity and corruption not only remain, they have become...
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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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