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goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank set goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to …, eliminating poverty by 2030 is out of the region's reach. Even under our 'best case' scenario of accelerated growth and … redistribution from the richest 10 percent to the poorest 40 percent of the population, the poverty rate would still be around 10 …
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By exploiting recent advances in mixed (stochastic parameter) ordered probit estimators and a unique longitudinal dataset from Ghana, this paper examines the distribution of subjective wellbeing across sectors of employment and offers insights into the functioning of developing country labor...
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Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing public spending. This paper aims at characterizing the redistributive potential of six African countries: Ghana, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Africa. These...
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Food security and obesity represent two of the most significant public health issues. However, little is known about how these issues are intertwined. Here, we assess the causal relationship between food security during early childhood and relatively long-run measures of child health....
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