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The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality rates after birth, using data from 1973-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender...
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urbanization may well bear on the speed of poverty reduction. This paper reviews the latter question within the context of Tanzania …. It starts from the observation that migration to towns contributed much more to poverty reduction than migration to … access off-farm employment and exit poverty because they are more nearby. It concludes with a call for greater consideration …
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As part of its 2020 Strategy adopted, the EU has set a number of headline targets including one for poverty and social … conducted on the basis of information available in the European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) that was … intersection of the current dimensions proves to be satisfactory, we explored a consistent poverty approach using both the EU …
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As awareness of the limitations of relying solely on income to measure poverty and social exclusion has become more … poverty and social exclusion in rich countries have been predominantly ad hoc and have relied on data that are far from ideal … intersection approaches that have characterized many earlier studies. Multidimensional poverty is characterized and decomposed in …
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As part of its 2020 Strategy adopted, the EU has set a number of headline targets including one for poverty and social … conducted on the basis of information available in the European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) that was … of all three of the current dimensions proves to be particularly useful, we explored a consistent poverty approach using …
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The EU-SILC 2005 wave includes a special module on inter-generational transmission of poverty. In addition to the … standard data relating to income and material deprivation, the information relating to parental background and childhood … circumstances was collected for all household members or selected respondents aged over 24 and less than 66 at the end of the income …
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