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on consumer expenditure (2011-12), health and education (2014) to examine the latest understanding of poverty in China … and India, and how that connects with minorities. Poverty has generally become less acute in both China and India, thanks …
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I. Cross country studies and a North-South comparison in the study of poverty -- 1. Bérenger, Valérie and Bresson …, Florent. Axiomatic and Robust Multidimensional Poverty Measurements in Five Southern Mediterranean Countries -- 2. Fusco … the EU Experience -- II. Assessing poverty -- 3. Chakravarty, Satya and d’Ambrosio, Conchita. A Family of Unit Consistent …
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a new approach to such issues as the 'new' poverty, precariousness, long-term unemployment, social polarization and lack … of citizenship. The book shows how relational and distributional aspects of poverty are interlinked …
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This book re-evaluates the importance of social policies in shaping well-being and combating exclusion, and enhances understanding of how these policies are formed in a globalizing world. It emphasises the context- and path-dependence of patterns and policies of inclusion and exclusion, and...
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Muslim minorities in China and India form only a small fraction of their respective populations, yet as they principally live in troubled border states, they are of key strategic importance in the war on terror. In this global context, this book explores whether economics is more important than...
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This text is concerned with the increasingly important and problematic area of financial exclusion, broadly defined as the inability and/or reluctance of particular societal groups to access mainstream financial services. This has emerged as a major international policy issue. There is growing...
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contributions” -- Chapter 2. Tsegaye Mulugeta, “Impacts of Improved Agricultural Technology Adoption on Rural Poverty: Evidence from … Rural Farmers: An Analysis based on Survey Data of Ethiopia” -- Chapter 8. Getu Tigre, “Multidimensional Poverty and its … and alleviating poverty in the country. The studies cover transition from rural agriculture to urban industry and the …
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Introduction -- Chapter One: The Rural–urban Division -- Chapter Two: Literature Review -- Chapter Three: Policies and Institutions Concerning Resource Flow -- Chapter Four: Methodology -- Chapter Five: Peasants’ View -- Chapter Six: Officials’ View -- Chapter Seven: Quantitative Results...
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goal of ending poverty in the country. In its nine chapters, it takes the readers through trends and estimates of poverty … in India, explains changes in the way it has been measured over time and the factors that lead to persistence of poverty …, draws attention to the fact that hunger is both a cause and an effect of poverty and has gender and age dimensions too. The …
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in relative prices on inequality and poverty. This book shows the shift in the literature on prices from being an … theory-based analysis of household behavior. It also includes recent developments in the poverty measurement literature …, documenting the shift from the exclusively money metric and unidimensional poverty measures to multidimensional poverty …
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