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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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This study complements the inclusive growth literature by examining the determinants and consequences of the middle class in a continent where economic growth has been relatively high. The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 33 African countries for a 2010 cross-sectional study. OLS,...
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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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coefficient for the measurement of income disparities, the poverty threshold and the depth of poverty. The results show that in … risk of poverty decreased – in 2008 the proportion of Czech households at risk of poverty achieved the lowest percentage of … households and an increase in the number of households at risk of poverty. The conclusions prove an up to two-year delay of the …
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Economic growth does not necessarily ensure environmental sustainability for a country. The relationship between the two is far more complicated for developing countries like India, given the dependence of a large section of the population on natural resources. Under this backdrop, the current...
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growth": the growth has really a positive impact on the reduction of poverty but this effect is destroyed by the great … inequalities between the various strata of society which, all things considered, increase poverty. Concerning the inclusive growth …
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After an impressive 12 point reduction in Peruvian monetary poverty, questions have been raised about the extent in … of monetary poverty and the overall level of deprivation based on the multidimensional measure. We select six dimensions …
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Economic policies are often judged by a handful of statistics, some of which may be biased during periods of change. We estimate the income growth implied by the evolution of food demand and durable good ownership in post-reform Brazil and Mexico, and find that changes in consumption patterns...
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Latin America has often been depicted as one of the most unequal regions in the world. However, after the rising of inequality, the figure decline dramatically starting from the year 2000. In this setting, Bolivia has been one of the poorest performers on income distribution efforts, lately,...
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A fruitful recent theoretical literature has related human capital and technological development with income (and wages) inequality. However, empirical assessments on the relationship are still scarce. We relate human capital and total factor productivity (TFP) with inequality and discover that,...
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