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In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …
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and channels with respect to income inequality, poverty, education, and health. To date, this area has received less … levels of resource rents can end up with significantly different achievements in terms of poverty, inequality, health, and …
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household may be lifted out of or pushed into poverty. The impacts of trade on growth and longer-term consequences of trade …This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty … is significant heterogeneity in the poverty impacts of trade, both across households and countries. This highlights the …
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eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, with the specific goals of halving the proportions of both undernourished and malnourished … millions of families from the desperate cycle of hunger and poverty also had consequences for the environment. Roughly 72% of …Established by the United Nations in 2015 with a target date of 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide …
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status. Our conclusion that non-monetary factors matter to reduce undernutrition, and, therefore, monetary poverty reduction …. Also, we find that, even under the assumption of high growth, income growth alone will not be able to reduce undernutrition …In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty …
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appears feasible with moderate growth rates and fairly mild pro-poor distributional change. -- income distribution ; poverty …The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article …
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We use a fiscal incidence model based on the South African 2014/15 Living Conditions Survey to simulate the poverty … COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant upon its expiry and closing the extreme (food poverty line) poverty gap. Our key … findings are that the introduction of a household-targeted family poverty grant is theoretically able to reduce extreme poverty …
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Post-apartheid poverty and inequality trends have been the subject of intensive analysis, yet relatively little … attention has been devoted to the impact of differential price movements on the measurement of poverty and inequality. This … paper aims to tell the story of the evolution of both money-metric and non-money-metric poverty and inequality in post …
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After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since … around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as … poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …
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-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since … the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both …
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