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Energiearmut wird durch steigende Energiepreise und die gleichzeitig steigende Armut auch in der europäischen Union ein …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence of food security and human development inter-relationships for a sample of low-income countries. Design/methodology/approach – The analytical procedure involves the estimation of a reduced form equation utilising...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the global dimensions of poverty, hunger, death, and disease. Design …. Findings – Reducing the higher incidence of poverty, hunger, death, and disease in sub-Saharan African countries depends …
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erst in Folge des Jobverlusts und von Armut Betroffene nicht nach dem Einkommensrückgang ihre politische Beteiligung …The poor and the unemployed are politically less interested and active than persons above the poverty line and the … working population. Compared to other European democracies, Germany shows above-average levels of inequality of political …
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inequality and to design effective intervention policies. The purpose of this paper is to focus on poverty reduction and welfare …Purpose – Measures of inequality determine the effectiveness of social and economic policies aimed at reducing … improving impacts of reducing income inequality in the case of Fiji. Using Fiji's Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2002 …
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The poor and the unemployed are politically less interested and active than persons above the poverty line and the … working population. Compared to other European democracies, Germany shows above-average levels of inequality of political … participation. Data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) suggest that this inequality has been increasing in the past …
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This report is a brief survey of WTO agreements and their implications for the West African economies (including Chad). The study reviews the positions of West African countries on various WTO issues and compares these positions with positions expressed by major trade partners, particularly the...
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This study explores the dynamics of poverty in Kenya. The study specifically examines how initial conditions, household … decisions, and other factors that may change over time affect poverty. Dynamic relationships are identified between behavioral …
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escaping from poverty as well as descending into poverty; 3) to determine effects of compound disadvantages on the likelihood … of chronic poverty; and 4) to assess the evidence of spatial poverty traps (SPTs). Quantitative analysis is conducted … those households found to have risen from poverty (starting in the bottom tercile and ending in the top tercile, the …
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Zimbabwe, it also establishes a clear link between MFIs and both poverty eradication and the empowerment and equality of women …
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