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The coexistence of urban and rural poverty and migration to cities is studied in a dual economy model where the … and the distribution of wealth matter for the migration decision, and costs of backmigration may produce an urban poverty …
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to a quasi-natural experiment induced by a trade reform in Colombia, we find that firms that have been more exposed to a …
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of poverty in Colombia, surveys government programs to alleviate poverty, and reviews the factors contributing to the …
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inform policy by complementing the analysis of standard macro-level measures of inequality and poverty with a household …-level analysis of subjective perceptions of poverty. We find that many more people appear to feel poor than are classified as such …
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Using micro-data from household expenditure surveys, we document the evolution of consumption poverty in the United … poverty has not declined materially since the 1980s and even increased for the young. We then analyze which social and … economic factors help explain the extent of poverty in the U.S. using probit, tobit, and machine learning techniques. Our …
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While trade integration has been an engine of global growth and prosperity, as suggested by theory, some sectors have been negatively affected by increased import competition. We test if this negative effect is significant in a context of high intranational migration, as theory indicates that...
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a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this … relationship between poverty, schooling, and child labor. Extrapolating from our results, our estimates imply that roughly half of … India''s rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …
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new trade policy. In assessing these findings, it should be borne in mind that the links between trade reform and poverty …
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This paper uses the 1991 Indian trade liberalization to measure the impact of trade liberalization on poverty, and to … more exposed to liberalization were concentrated, experienced slower decline in poverty and lower consumption growth. The …
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