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decline in earnings, extreme poverty and the Gini coefficient based on labor income increased by around 9.2 and 5 percentage … than offset the labor income losses for the bottom four deciles, however, such that poverty relative to the pre … ended in late 2020. The challenge will be to avoid a sharp increase in poverty and inequality if the labor market does not …
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In designing policy measures, including possible social safety nets, targeted to the poor, it is important to fully understand the efficiency implications of these measures. There is abundant macroeconomic literature on their negative effects on the poor’s work effort. The literature, however,...
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This paper examines the macroeconomic interaction between informality and gender inequality in the labor market. A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model is built to study the impact of gender-targeted policies on female labor force participation, female formal employment, gender wage gap,...
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Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create …
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Poverty has remained widespread in Mozambique, mostly on account of the prevalent war situation. This paper provides a …
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of Friedrich Nietzsche, that ties poverty and inequality to unethical behavior of the strong toward the weak. The paper … contributes to an understanding of why poverty and inequality have remained entrenched in some societies in spite of repeated …
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swamps remittances, this paper finds that remittances, which are a stable, private transfer, have a direct poverty mitigating … remittances, poverty and financial development. The paper posits that formalizing such flows can serve as an effective access …
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Largely because of its vast copper reserves, Chile's exports are highly concentrated on this low complexity product and … this paper, this accomplishment reflects Chile's strength in policy areas that foster non-mineral exports (including …
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trade liberalization in Peru (a major beneficiary of trade integration), which allows for methodological improvements …
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This survey describes the timing and main macroeconomic results of the ambitious structural reforms adopted by Chile in …
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