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poverty and wellbeing. This framing is reflective of Brazil's national narrative on race relations and the idea that class and … employment status have been the most salient barriers to social welfare protections. Brazil's widely well-regarded anti-poverty … systems offers important lessons on how poverty relief can further human development and enhance agency. Future reformers can …
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Building on Rawls' theory of justice and Sen's theory of capabilities, I present an outline of social justice under … climate shocks, illustrating it with the experiences of persons with disability. Social justice holds when inequality is …
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Viet Nam has achieved remarkable economic growth and poverty reduction since the Doi Moi. However, ethnic minorities …, electricity supply, markets, and justice services. Initiated in 1998, Programme-135 targets the most vulnerable communities and … standards. The programme addresses typical causes of poverty among ethnic minorities and inequality between these groups and the …
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's employment share declined, but most new jobs were in services. Concurrently, poverty incidence declined dramatically. Income …. Economic growth combined with structural change contributed to poverty reduction, but the magnitude of this impact depends … heavily on the poverty line used in calculating poverty. The Thai data support the Kuznets hypothesis of an inverted U …
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its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …
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poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …-monetary poverty have gradually improved over the past 20 years but significant differences across the country remain. …
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growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears … process. Two alternatives development strategies are described: pro-poor growth and pro-growth poverty reduction. The finding … that high initial poverty incidence acts as a deterrent to subsequent growth is confronted with micro evidence from rural …
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In this study, we assess the inclusiveness of growth by tracking the yearly percentage change in the household consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track the consumption of groups of individuals that share...
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consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
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concept of "transitional justice" (TJ). The paper analyses how the ambiguous, evolving and expanding nature of the concept of …) authoritarian societies in order to strengthen their democracy. Special attention is paid to gender justice. Illustrations are drawn … mainly from Africa where many TJ processes and mechanisms are currently taking place. -- transitional justice ; post …
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