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Land reform in Moldova: how viable are emerging peasant farms? An assessment referring to a recent World Bank study

Petrick, Martin - 2000

with almost no machinery or purchased inputs at all, b) the income of a typical farm household is below a poverty line …

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Digitalisation in the lives of urban migrants: Evidence from Bogota

Martin-Shields, Charles; Camacho, Sonia; Taborda, Rodrigo; … - 2019

As increased migration, particularly to urban centres, and digitalisation play a greater role in development cooperation, more research on how these phenomena interact will become critical. Information communication technologies (ICTs) offer pathways for potentially making it easier for migrants...

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Does COVID-19 change the long-term prospects of latecomer industrialisation?

Altenburg, Tilman; Brandi, Clara; Pegels, Anna; Stamm, … - 2021

This study explores to what extent the COVID-19 crisis has been a turning point in the industrialisation process and the overall progress of countries towards sustainable development and what this implies for future inclusive and sustainable industrial development policies. The focus of the...

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Migration, remittances and educational outcomes: The case of Haiti

Bredl, Sebastian - 2009

high poverty rate in the country. …

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Trinkwasserversorgung und Armut in Kasachstan: Aktueller Zustand und Wechselwirkungen

Trouchine, Alexei - 2003

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Türkiye'de Hanehalkı: Işgücü, gelir, harcama ve yoksulluk açısından analizi

Yükseler, Zafer; Türkan, Ercan - 2007

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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru

Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018

Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …

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Estimating poverty and inequality indicators using interval censored income data from the German microcensus

Walter, Paul; Weimer, Katja - 2018

Rising poverty and inequality increases the risk of social instability in countries all around the world. For measuring … poverty and inequality there exists a variety of statistical indicators. Estimating these indicators is trivial as long as the … income variable. Based on these pseudo samples, poverty and inequality indicators are estimated. The standard errors of the …

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Effects of Poverty On Impatience: Preferences or Inattention?

Bartos, Vojtech; Bauer, Michal; Chytilova, Julie; … - 2018

We study two psychological channels how poverty may increase impatient behavior -- an effect on time preference and … instead of working. We find that experimentally induced thoughts about poverty-related problems increase the preference to …

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Measuring unfair inequality: Reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty

Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2020

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …

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