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, South Africa's government has made significant steps to combat poverty and inequality and encourage economic growth …. Understanding the connection between social investment, poverty, inequality, and economic growth is, therefore, necessary to … indicate that there is no correlation between social investment, poverty, inequality, and economic development. According to …
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The objective of this study was to examine the role of social security in fighting poverty in Metlaoui, Tunisia, using …
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' remittances on economic growth and poverty in 21 Latin American countries. The study uses annual data covering all Latin American … addition, we estimate the short-run and long-run effects of workers' remittances on economic growth and poverty on individual …In this study, we explore the hypotheses that (a) workers' remittances enhance economic growth in Latin American …
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, all regions in Indonesia have had negative economic growth. It also increased the poverty … rate in the country. The government must allocate pro-growth and poverty reduction programs to maintain economic growth and … simultaneously reduce poverty. This study aims to measure the relative efficiency of pro-growth poverty reduction spending of local …
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to better understand the causes of income inequality so as to better formulate policies that foster inclusive growth and …-off that exists between delivering generous welfare provisions and strong economic growth. Such dynamics have stimulated a need … reduce growing concerns surrounding income inequality. Method: Given its ability to succinctly summarize, analyze, and …
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The idea that high levels of economic inequality negatively affect the rate and sustainability of economic growth is … economic inequality in order to boost economic growth. Should the thesis be considered as a populist slogan or a scientifically … negative relationship between economic inequality and economic growth (59% of the previous empirical research). The research …
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between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can …) economies are two-fold: first, we observed that for low values of economic growth, inequality and growth bear an inverted U … relationship between growth and inequality can take the form of a wave. Secondly, we examine the issue of the existence of …
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convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to an acceptable margin, there appears to be little concrete policy … possibly rising inequality would ensure that a great many would fall through the cracks, and not benefit from high growth, even …This paper focuses on the role of institutions in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are …
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growth according to its interactions with inequality and poverty. This model is useful for developing countries that lack GDP … index of inequality elasticity of poverty. The study puts forward a scenario matrix to hypothesize the four qualities of …This paper aims to estimate and rank the performance of sub-nationals in terms of their quality of growth using an …
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growth have significant relationships with reported child abuse cases in the long run. However, divorce and poverty do not … growth, and unemployment can positively affect the number of reported child abuse cases. Poverty, on the other hand, has a … effects for wider society. Examining whether there is some relationship between divorce, unemployment, poverty, inflation …
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