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This paper summarizes the micro - level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household - level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan -...
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economic turmoil in 1992-1995. Despite the catastrophic fall in GDP employment contracted only marginally. This flexibility has … been achieved mainly through the informalization of employment, and through the reallocation of labor towards small … of the Georgian labor force relies on self-employment as the primary means to earn an income. For some, this is an avenue …
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employment creation nor the decrease in within-country inequality are automatically assured by increasing trade and FDI. The … other main findings of the paper are that: 1) the employment effect can be very diverse in different areas of the world …
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Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty because of changes in family structure and in the labor...
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laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of …
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Policy researchers often have to estimate the future effect of imposing a policy in a particular location. There is often evidence on the effects of similar policies in other jurisdictions, but no information on the effects of the policy in the jurisdiction in question. And the policy may have...
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decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in child labor. However, communities that relied heavily on employment in … 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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The Government of India is implementing a new policy which dramatically increases funding for a cash transfer program … with little understanding of poverty among India's elderly or its determinants. This paper finds that households with …
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poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …
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