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We focus on the statics and dynamics of poverty in Spain using data from the first eight waves of the European … pattern of poverty changes noted by other authors for the early nineteen-nineties. After this period poverty reduces slightly …
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This paper studies poverty as a dynamic phenomenon, motivated by the recurringeconomic crises that affect developing … lack a unified framework. Echoing Atkinson (1987), this paperaddresses the question of how poverty should be measured over …
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revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …
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This paper documents the impact of Argentinaamp;apos's recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a … special focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a … simple rule to compensate for the lack of regional poverty figures until 2001, providing consistent series of urban poverty …
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. We conclude that many aspects of growing up in poverty are harmful to children's development, and that narrowly …
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This paper examines whether and how socio-economic status is associated with children's behavioural development in today's children. Using a large cohort of English children born in the early 1990s we find significant social inequalities in several dimensions of child behaviour at age 7. We...
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In October 2007, a unified Commission on Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) will begin operation in Britain. The Commission will have responsibility for monitoring and promoting human rights and equality on the grounds of gender, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status,...
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The Equalities Review is an independent panel set up by the UK government in 2005 to investigate the persistence of social inequalities and to make recommendations for the development of a unified Commission for Equality and Human Rights. This paper was originally written for the Review. It...
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families suggest that parental involvement does matter, but that it depends on when it and poverty are measured, as well as the … type of involvement and the gender of the parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlier poverty …, however, neither compare with the reduction in the poverty effect as a result of father interest in school …
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