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effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6%, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage points …, issues of measurement error, and different samples. The negative effects of the storm partly explain the increase in poverty …
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This paper examines the impact of severe wildfire events on Bolivia's poverty and labor market outcomes. We use a panel … Interactive Fixed Effects Counterfactual Estimator, we estimate the causal effects of severe wildfire events on poverty, household … per-capita income, and the agricultural sector. We find a significant short-term increase in poverty explained by a …
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Given the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus, the State has had to respond rapidly and quite severely to flatten the curve and slow the spread of the virus. This has had significant implications for many aspects of life with differential impacts across the population. The lack of timely...
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Proponents of a basic income (BI) claim that it could bring significant reductions in financial poverty, on top of many … comparative two-country setting, we show that the potential poverty-reducing impact of BI strongly depends on exactly how and …-economic context in which it is introduced. Some versions of BI could potentially help to reduce poverty but always at a significant …
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inequality relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality … and median consumption expenditure increased. At the same time, poverty incidence and severity increased precipitously … regions in consumption or poverty levels. We also find that durable goods expenditures are the biggest contributor to …
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the least as an ironclad protection against poverty, if set high enough. It is hard to know with any certainty what a …-)simulation modelling are very encouraging. The estimated first-round effects on poverty are for the most part disappointing, especially in …
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There has not been much progress on the poverty front in Europe over recent decades, at least if we take it as a …. Some argue that adequate poverty relief is simply too expensive or that it would put too much of a redistributive burden on … floors and thus out-of-work benefit levels are inexorably under pressure, making poverty relief both harder to achieve and …
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The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at …
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This paper provides new evidence about poverty trends in Turkey between 2003 and 2011 and the factors accounting for … them. We give particular attention to issues of statistical inference, and the choice of the poverty line and the poverty … measure. Our robust conclusion is that absolute poverty declined rapidly between 2003 and 2008 but fell only slightly between …
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We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large … increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic growth. Our re-examination is a first … absolute poverty and also substantially under-estimated the rise in relative poverty. Their and our findings on poverty reflect …
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