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countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … the forecasts, suggesting an important role for inequality on the path to eliminating extreme poverty …
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, economic growth, and poverty alleviation. The study shows that there is no consensus among the existing studies, which are … relationship. This is also true between physical infrastructure and income inequality, as reported by a few studies. This study …
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Egypt also led to a decrease in poverty, mostly from the flagship Tamween program. Poverty and inequality could be reduced … data for fiscal year 2015. Evidence shows that Egyptian fiscal policy reduces income inequality, and that among individual … countries, Egypt's overall fiscal policy placed it in the median of the distribution of inequality reduction. Fiscal policies in …
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, examines the role of income inequality for poverty reduction. The analysis finds that the assumption that income is log … poverty reduction are calculated. The inequality elasticity of poverty reduction is larger, on average, compared to the …'s initial level of inequality. However, despite these results, most of the observed changes in poverty can be explained by …
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This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two different scenarios for its … poverty years and 4.3 million years of life lost across 150 countries. The ratio of PYs to LYs is very large in most countries …
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sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … regional level where the Common Agricultural Program funding tends to go, poverty-wise, within each country. This approach …
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. Since better paid workers are more likely to be able to work from home, COVID-19 is likely to exacerbate inequality …
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inequality, with government expenditures in the form of in-kind transfers leading to the largest decreases. While expenditures in …'s fiscal policies also lead to a reduction in poverty, mainly due to well-targeted direct transfers …
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