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Household vulnerability and conditional cash transfers : consumption smoothing effects of PROGRESA-Oportunidades in rural Mexico, 2003−2007
Uchiyama, Naoko - 2017
panel data for 2003−2007. The period covered by this book coincides with the unexpected reversal of the poverty trend … observed in 2006 to the present which raised a question of vulnerability to poverty of Mexican households that had emerged from … poverty in the early 2000s under a stable economic condition. The author applies different methodologies in defining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397937
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Financing the Family : Remittances to Central America in a Time of Crisis
Inchauste, Gabriela (ed.); Stein, Ernesto (ed.) - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
Interest in learning how to make the most of the potential developmental benefits of remittance flows has grown worldwide. Financing the Family adds to that body of knowledge with a summary of recent research that emphasizes experimental approaches, focuses on Central America, and analyzes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106401
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Poverty Alleviation Investment and Private Economy in China : An Exploration of The Guangcai Programme
Wang, Lin - 2014
Programme -- Chapter III：Theoretical Structure of the Guangcai Programme -- Chapter IV：The Guangcai Programme and the Poverty … Alleviation Mechanism of NGOs -- Chapter V：The Guangcai Programme and the Transformation of China's Poverty Alleviation -- Chapter … VI：The Guangcai Programme and Transformation of Poverty-Alleviation Model. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014017196
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Basic Income Worldwide : Horizons of Reform
Murray, Matthew C. (ed.); Pateman, Carole (ed.) - 2012
In the midst of growing criticism of current economic orthodoxies and welfare systems, basic income is growing in popularity. This is the first book to discuss existing at examples of basic income, in both rich and poor countries, and to consider its prospects in other places around the world.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106340
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Lectures on Inequality, Poverty and Welfare
Villar, Antonio - 2017
These lectures aim to help readers understand the logics and nature of the main indicators of inequality and poverty …, with special attention to their social welfare underpinnings. The key approach consists in linking inequality and poverty … measurement with welfare evaluation. As concern for inequality and poverty stems from ethical considerations, the measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397340
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Derivatives and Development : A Political Economy of Global Finance, Farming, and Poverty
Bush, Sasha Breger - 2012
, aggravating poverty among those they are purported to help and highlighting some of the dangers of neoliberal globalization for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106329
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Policy Regimes and the Political Economy of Poverty Reduction in Malaysia
Teik, Khoo Boo (ed.) - 2012
Malaysia's 40-year strategy of 'poverty eradication' has met with a great deal of success, yet has caused controversy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106343
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Poverty Reduction and Changing Policy Regimes in Botswana
Selolwane, Onalenna (ed.) - 2012
, social and institutional policies interacted to produce successful poverty reduction. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106346
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Poverty, Chronic Poverty and Poverty Dynamics : Policy Imperatives
Mehta, Aasha Kapur (ed.); Bhide, Shashanka (ed.);  … - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396795
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Poverty in Afghanistan : Causes, Consequences, and Coping Mechanisms
Hakim Haider, Mohammad; Kumar, Sumit - 2018
econometric and statistical techniques. The authors address and identify the extent of poverty in Afghanistan over the years, the … spatial patterns and regional imbalances of poverty in Afghanistan, the distinguishing characteristics of the poor in … the poor in development processes and to successfully cope with poverty and its adverse outcomes. This short book will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397059