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Roles of social conformity in deviance in poverty : a study on working poverty and educational investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - 2013
In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
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Poverty and economic behavior : gambling at social security paydays
Dahan, Momi - 2019 - This version: 15/7/2019
The goal of this research is to explore whether actual lottery revenues are sensitive to scarcity, as measured by intra-monthly variation in financial resources. Exogenous paydays of social security benefits are employed to generate the intra-monthly variation in financial resources. Using two...
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Income inequality and government transfers in Mexico
Lambert, Frederic; Park, Hyunmin - 2019
We analyze microdata from Mexico's survey on household income and expenditures (ENIGH) to study the evolution of income inequality in Mexico over 2004-16, identify its sources, and investigate how it was affected by government social policy. We find evidence of only a small decline in inequality...
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Hacia nuevas políticas sociales en América Latina : crecimiento, clases medias y derechos sociales
Solimano, Andrés - In: Revista CEPAL (2005) 87, pp. 45-60
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Poverty in Ukraine : an overview
Slay, Benjamin (contributor) - 2009
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Poverty in Ukraine : methodology, practice, analysis
Nacionalʹna akademija nauk Ukraïny - In: Problems of economic transition 51 (2008) 6, pp. 7-96
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Poverty in Ukraine and the economic crisis
Slay, Benjamin (contributor) - 2009
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Poverty and social policy reform in Ukraine : an overview
Slay, Benjamin - In: Problems of economic transition 51 (2008) 8, pp. 56-80
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El estado y la pobreza en Costa Rica
Taylor-Dormond, Marvin - In: Revista CEPAL (1991), pp. 133-150
El liberalismo vigente en America Latina puede inducir a confiar a la mano invisible del mercado la tarea redistributiva. En el presente articulo se intenta contribuir al acervo de conocimientos sobre el papel del estado en materia de transferencia de recursos y atencion a los pobres en Costa...
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Crecimiento, justicia distributiva y política social
Solimano, Andrés - In: Revista CEPAL (1998), pp. 31-44
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