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the priority given to absolute poverty in poor countries. The pattern of externalities also suggests that there will be … too much poverty and inequality in this economy, even judged solely from the point of view of aggregate efficiency …
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Nepal made remarkable progress in poverty reduction between 1995 and 2010, a period coinciding with a decade … as instrumental to lifting the living conditions of Nepal's impoverished rural areas, a bulk of the observed poverty …. About 50 percent of the poverty reduction witnessed between 1995 and 2010 was associated with growth in labor incomes …
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This paper presents a new demographic profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those living on less than $1 … poverty is primarily rural and young; 80 percent of the extreme poor and 75 percent of the moderate poor live in rural areas … in households with three or more children. Gender differences in poverty rates are muted, and there is scant evidence of …
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The Millennium Development Goal of halving the incidence of extreme poverty from its 1990 level will be achieved in … 2015, and the international development community is now moving to a new goal of ?ending extreme poverty.? However, the … countries have zero or only one poverty estimate. This paper refers to such lack of poverty data as ?data deprivation,? because …
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poverty rate of 2030 modifying Ravallion (2013)'s approach in that it introduces country-specific economic and population … obstacles to meeting the target and proposes a simple intermediate growth target under which the global poverty rate can be … not enough and sharing prosperity within and across countries is essential to end extreme poverty in one generation …
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progress toward ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. This paper estimates the resource requirements to …
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Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …
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poverty in Nepal of local and international migration for work. They apply an instrumental variable approach to deal with … observed and counterfactual household expenditure distribution. The results indicate that one-fifth of the poverty reduction in … home. The authors also show that while the increase in work migration abroad was the leading cause of this poverty …
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Projects and reforms targeting infrastructure services can affect consumer welfare through changes in the price, coverage, or quality of the services provided. The benefits of improved service quality - while significant - are often overlooked because they are difficult to quantify. This paper...
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