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The study examined the linkages between inequality in household expenditure components and total inequality and poverty …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between … poverty and inequality. The findings imply that policies directed towards reducing within-component inequality will be more …
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different types of transfers, we find that the impact of these transfers on poverty and inequality was low, due to low coverage …Vietnam’s extensive social security system is claimed to have played a key role in the extraordinary poverty decline … well contributory pensions and social allowances reached the poor and to which extent these transfers affected poverty and …
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is an anti-poverty line. The proposed affluence line is derived here based on the principle of transfer of resources of …
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urban inequality, a reduction in urban poverty, and a lower level of overall inclusive growth of a city. …
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based and nutrition-based measure of poverty. The dynamic model exhibits the possibility of a higher rate of accumulation … with malnutrition may also imply a conflict between different measures of poverty. Both the models point toward a direct … and negative relationship between inequality and share of nutritional consumption as reflected in the consumption of food …
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This paper aims to facilitate the understanding of the phenomena of poverty and inequality in the Peruvian society and …
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-specific and microeconomic survey-based approaches is on 52 African countries. ‘Mobile phone’-oriented poverty reduction channels …
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Relative deprivation (RD), also known as relative poverty , an idea implicitly put forward by Adam Smith in The Wealth …
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poverty reduction in India. …
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program on poverty and inequality. Our estimates indicate that the VBSP was quite effective. Participation on average seemed … computations indicate that the program decreased the head count of poverty for its participants by almost four percentage points …. Similarly, the program decreased the poverty gap index and the poverty-severity index by almost twenty percent. The impact on …
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