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high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in … 1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely …
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economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …
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a goal of reducing inequality in income and other dimensions of poverty within and between countries. Second, this … of ownership by analysing the substance of 22 developing countries' Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and the … income poverty reduction and social sector investments (education, health and water) are important priorities in most of the …
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What has happened to inequality between and within countries since 1990? In this paper we explore who have been the … winners and losers from global growth since 1990. We find that falls in total global inequality in the last 30 years are … the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of …
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We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …
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future trends of poverty prevalence and inequality across countries in a reference scenario and under a climate mitigation …), submitted under the Paris Agreement, will have on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of poverty eradication (SDG1) and … reduced income inequality (SDG10). By combining an empirical analysis with a modelling exercise, the paper estimates the …
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Should the state treat men and women in identical ways, or should it legislate and enforce policies that are aware of gender differences? In other words, should the state be gender-blind or gender-sensitive? Gender, ethnic, religious, sexual orientation, ideological, economic, political, and...
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Shakespeare, this paper examines the relations between poverty levels, economic growth and changes in inequality in Tanzania …Studying the relation between economic growth and income poverty reduction without taking changes in the distribution … during the 1990s. It offers four conclusions. First, the efficiency with which growth reduces poverty increases with a …
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This paper explores the relationship between different levels of education and poverty through an analysis of household … secondary level between 1988-2000, and confirms the inequality that exists in the access to education at post-primary level … of male and female children. Both poverty and low education have positive but weak effect on child/woman ratio. On the …
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various designs and estimating costs and possible impacts on poverty and inequality. The authors also analyse a series of …
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