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This study assesses the impact of income and asset poverty on child work using the rural sub-sample of the 2004 Malawi …
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Chile provides an interesting setting to analyze vulnerability to poverty, especially today, after the last poverty … count presented in 2013 by the Ministry of Planning. After twenty years of declining poverty, national indicators showed an … increase in poverty from 13% in 2006 to 14% in 2011. Using the CASEN panel data set, this paper explores some of poverty …
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In this study, we analyze the privations welfare in Cameroon considering poverty and social exclusion. The framework … provided by the capability approach and construction of indicators of poverty and social exclusion by the fuzzy method from … ECAM III survey data shows that the overall level of poverty and social exclusion (respectively 0.4008 and 0.2291), are …
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This paper examines the poverty and inequality pattern, income and characteristics of households in the Program 135-II … communes – the poorest areas in Vietnam. The poverty incidence decreased from 57.5 percent to 49.2 percent during the period … 2007-2012. Although the poverty incidence decreased, the poverty gap and severity indexes of households in the Program 135 …
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education coefficient. Households at risk of poverty are also taken into account. Income inequality is measured by way of the … coefficient, as well as between education and households at risk of poverty. The biggest share is represented by households where … negative dependence between the education level and number of households at risk of poverty. Within analyzed period of five …
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for poverty reduction and rural development. The data and information were generated from combined descriptive and field …. The application of microcredit to other poverty groups who actually need subsidies and social safety nets would be a … Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC). Its graduated strategy for helping the poor should be applied to the poverty pyramid by …
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of poverty on child labour and child soldier. An attempt is made in this article to highlight and critically examine the …
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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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Is household income enough for human development or government should heed to direct provision of social services to improve capabilities of individual. The former emphasized by the World Bank and later by the UNDP. This paper tests the argument by estimating a basic need policy model for...
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This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality measurement. A short conceptual background, a step-by-step procedure and a simple numerical example illustrate how to calculate and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz...
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