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Recently, there is growing debate in developed countries on the issue of the working poor. Poverty is a phenomenon … created new poverty risks amongst the employed population. As a result of this trend, the concept of the ‘working poor’, which … every five persons in labour force belongs to a poor household. While the problem of working poverty is broadly discussed in …
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This paper analyses the impact of adverse economic shocks on human capital formation in the case of India. It uses the extended theoretical model of Basu and Van (1998). The study has been carried out for the period between 1999 and 2002 and covers 385 districts. The results show that during a...
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The welfare state was created after 1950 with counterproductive mechanisms and this caused high inflation and high unemployment and stagnating growth by 1970, called stagflation. Since 1970 governments redressed the welfare state but did not succeed in finding workable mechanisms. They rather...
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over its effects on the improvements of job creation, inequality and poverty. In 2007, Macedonia experienced 6.1% real GDP … poverty rate were one of the highest in Europe, 34.9% and 29.4%, respectively. The global economic crisis worsened the … economic developments in the country, further increasing the poverty rates (30.4% relative poverty rate in 2012) and inequality …
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discusses the contribution of the labour market and of the social protection system as effective mechanisms to overcome poverty …
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evidence, neither empirical nor theoretical, that population controls would solve poverty and contribute to development …
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economic development in Nigeria. Based on empirical study, it has been observed that poverty is multifaceted and its … growth shall be regressed on poverty level in Nigeria. This will create an assertion whether Nigeria needs a systematic … reinforcement of the microfinance mechanism to propagate a soothing trend for poverty reduction and economic growth. …
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development process and poverty reduction. The structure of the paper starts with an introduction, and then gives a definition of … section and poverty section, as at the end the paper links development, informal sector with poverty reduction. Furthermore …
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established in the region, found poverty persistence, the inequality enlarge and the social mobility limitations, some of the most … strategies impulse. In consequence, this situation positioning the themes of the poverty and the social inequalities in an … outstanding point in the regional development agenda. In this work, was did a recount of the main procedures used to poverty …
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