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The regional development policy in Brazil materializes mainly in the regional development funds for the north-east (FNE), the north (FNO), and the centre-west (FCO), in which more than EUR36 billion was invested between 2004 and 2010. This paper examines the economic effect of these regional...
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We develop a new methodology to nowcast the effects of the COVID-19 crisis and forecast its evolution in small, export-oriented countries. To this aim, we exploit variation in financial indexes at the industry level and relate them to the expected duration of the crisis for each industry, under...
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been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …
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This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …
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Argentina experienced a decline in the early years of the 2000s, from 2000 to 2002, in GDP and in most labour market indicators, followed by improvements in nearly all of them, tracing out a U-shaped pattern. The international crisis of 2008 impacted negatively only on the unemployment rate and...
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indicators that were not affected negatively by the economic crisis were labour earnings, the poverty indices, and household per …
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, the percentage of registered workers, and labour earnings increased; and all poverty and inequality indicators decreased …
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labour earnings went up. At the same time, poverty and inequality largely diminished. The international economic crisis had a …
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poverty and inequality indicators decreased substantially between 2000 and 2012. The only negative impact of the international …
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negatively by the crisis, and labour earnings and poverty indicators had not recovered their pre-crisis levels by 2012. …
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