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The paper analyzes the effects of individual and household characteristics on current poverty status, while controlling … for initial conditions, past poverty status and unobserved heterogeneity in 14 European Countries for the period 1994 … very important policy implications, since if the former is the main cause of poverty it is of paramount importance to break …
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The paper examines the mobility into and out of poverty and identifies the determinants of poverty spell beginnings and … paper offers a snapshot of poverty mobility in Europe calculating the entry and exit poverty rates, along with the … conditional, to the duration of spell, exit probabilities and re-entry rates to poverty. In the second part observed …
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poverty. Results from estimating probability models indicate that social assistance receipt is strongly linked to joblessness …. However, as the Di Bao payments typically are small and many of the urban poor are not receivers, much urban poverty remains …
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In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
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poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … to offer an efficient policy options for Asian countries. Major determinant factors of growing inequality, poverty and a …
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constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of constitutional language of the economic and social rights matter … important results. First, we do not find an association between constitutional rights generally framed and poverty. Second, we … do not find an association between economic and social rights framed as directive principles and poverty. Third, we do …
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This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of … nationally designated poor county in China. Using the difference-in-differences approach, we show that targeted poverty … empirical evidence for boys. Our findings suggest that the new anti-poverty program in China has the potential to ameliorate the …
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This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2001 … poverty rates, rates of entry to and exit from poverty, and the duration of time spent in and out of poverty. The analysis … focuses upon comparisons between East and West Germany, by family structure, and citizenship status. Child poverty rates have …
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-group inequality is quite significant. One group emerges as being particularly at-risk of poverty are own-account workers …In work-poverty has become a pressing social issue in Europe. The self-employed remain relatively uncharted terrain in … this paper provides a systematic mapping exercise of poverty and living standards among the self-employed in the European …
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Combining nationally representative administrative and survey data with official proxy means testing models and coefficients, we evaluate Indonesia's three largest social programs. The setting for our evaluation is the launch of Indonesia's Unified Targeting system, an innovation developed to...
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