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population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality … poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future …
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This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … hyperinflation in 1985. A similar evolution of per capita income suggests a positive impact of growth on urban poverty, although the … period 1985?99. It turns out that urban poverty declined somewhat after the initial stabilization phase that followed the …
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shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …
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-led. Survival-led diversification would decrease inequality by increasing the incomes of poorer households and thus reduce poverty …. By contrast, opportunity-led diversification would increase inequality and have a minor effect on poverty, as it tends to … diversification strategies. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications differ somewhat from our expectations. Our findings indicate …
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services sector is split up into formal and informal activities to account for the fact that poverty is largely confined to the …
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Poverty Impact Analysis in individual countries. The model combines the optimizing behavior of CGE models with the asset …
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, growth generated by the boom reduces poverty despite increasing informality. …
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NGOs play an important role in international development cooperation, but the allocation of NGO aid has rarely been mapped, let alone explained. Based on a representative dataset for 61 important NGOs from various OECD countries, we analyze the targeting of NGO aid across a large number of...
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that includes a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) with 169 specific targets could be a step forward in achieving efficient governance and policies for global sustainable development. An essential element will be the global indicator...
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important step towards achieving more comprehensive blue growth. Here, we selected a set of 18 indicators to measure progress …. Overall, we show that the majority of countries in our assessment fail to achieve comprehensive blue growth. Sweden, Spain …
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