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activities. While intergenerational linkages are evident, we find a seemingly high degree of mobility across generations … land and housing bring little gain to mean consumption and play little role in explaining inequality. Inheritance of non … more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident. …
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This study focuses on growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda. We take a broad perspective, in two respects. First, we …
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The Millennium Development Goals have become the frame of reference for most of the development community: the standard by which performance will ultimately be judged. Given their importance, considerable attention has been paid as to whether these goals will be met or not. The overwhelming...
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-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the … inverted-U association between self-reported health status and income inequality, which suggests that high inequality in a … community poses threats to health. We also find that high inequality increases the probability of health-compromising behavior …
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transition and mobility for the country and its households? Or has it been a perverse trap? …
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city’s sociospatial inequality, degradation of the central districts and widespread irregularity, it illustrates how these …
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approach is also employed to rigorously examine the poverty-growth-inequality triangle. Finally, various simple but useful and …
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insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …
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