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evidence on the effect of remittances on poverty in an unbalanced panel of 40 high remittances economies. The endogeneity issue …, driven by the possibility that remittances and poverty may have bidirectional causality, is tackled by a system estimation … poverty. On the other hand, remittances decline with the wake of widespread poverty. There is consistent evidence that …
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analysis of the level of deprivation and pay less attention to income poverty and inequality. Because we consider deprivation … poverty but performs less well in equalising levels of deprivation. The results also show that the immature Southern welfare …
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poverty dynamics. In this paper, the results of longitudinal data analyses on income and poverty in three European welfare … poverty measures have been applied to reveal these dynamics. The focus will be on so-called poverty profiles indicating … models are estimated that aim to explain the likelihood of belonging to each of the poverty profiles over time and on the …
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We consider a health authority seeking to allocate annual budgets optimally over time to minimize the discounted social cost of infection(s) evolving in a finite set of R = 2 groups. This optimization problem is challenging, since as is well known, the standard epidemiological model describing...
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Although, currently many people live longer and enjoy the benefit of better health than their previous generations, many countries face an important challenge: large differences among population’s health. Thus, health inequality is met everywhere in the world, but more accentuated in countries...
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Our research on life expectancy started from analysing mortality in the counties of Bihor and Sătmar. We focused on different elements influencing mortality rate. The frequent mortality crises and daily life in the countryside in north-western Transylvania resulted in a low life expectancy at...
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replacement rate would alleviate the risk of old-age poverty, it would endanger long-term sustainability of public finance by …
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Life expectancy at birth or middle age was tightly connected to mortality structure. Major mortality crises in certain years greatly reduced life expectancy in the area. High mortality rate influencing all age groups led to a considerable decrease of average age. From the point of view of life...
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For many years, EU-27-Europe’s political-economic strategy was characterized by an intensive opening to the forces of globalization and the realization of the ‘four freedoms’ of goods, capital, labour and services on the EU-27-European ‘internal market’. The present article is a 175...
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The purpose of this paper was to study trends in life expectancy in Malawi since independence and offer possible explanations regarding its inter-temporal variations. Descriptive analysis has shown that life expectancy in Malawi has trailed below Sub Saharan Africa’s average. From the 1960s...
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