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communities who have no young children. The authors explore links between income diversification strategies, household assets, the …
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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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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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Is household income enough for human development or government should heed to direct provision of social services to …
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This study examines the poverty of the ethnic minorities in the poorest areas in Vietnam. We find that the ethnic … third of the income gap between the majority and all other ethnic minorities groups. Importantly, it implies that poverty of …
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from a 2010 Northern Mountain Baseline Survey (NMBS) of the Second Northern Mountains Poverty Reduction Project and Vietnam … Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) 2010. The poor ethnic minorities in Northern Mountains have lower assets and income …
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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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This paper illustrates how Crossing Generalised Lorenz (GL) curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. It starts by illustrating two alternative income distributions...
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This module illustrates how Generalised Lorenz (GL) Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options, in many of the cases where ordinary Lorenz curves fail to work After...
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monetary poverty and inequality. Intra-household gender discrimination has been widely shown to shape expenditure decisions …, nutrition status, and human capital accumulation of household members. However, conventional poverty and inequality analyses are … dominated by gender discrimination among household members. Estimates for Chile show a substantial worsening of poverty and …
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