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and channels with respect to income inequality, poverty, education, and health. To date, this area has received less … analysis although it is relevant to the Sustainable Development Goals agenda, as a significant number of the world poor live in … levels of resource rents can end up with significantly different achievements in terms of poverty, inequality, health, and …
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), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water …In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …
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accelerated growth of both agriculture and non-agricultural sectors. Vast challenges of still widespread poverty and food … poverty reduction in still disadvantaged regions of Asia will need to be different as well. …
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Understanding the relationship between food insecurity and subjective evaluation of well-being is critical in designing social welfare policies, especially in developing countries. Surprisingly, literature on the topic is scarce. This study adopted Van Praag's theoretical framework and used...
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We analyse vertical and horizontal inequality in Ecuador from a long-run perspective, as well as during and after the commodities boom. Using various data sources we show that Ecuador has made significant progress in reducing inequality, particularly since 2000. However, inequality has started...
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growth, poverty, and human development indicators. We identify key weaknesses, including lack of structural transformation …
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The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the …
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poverty line. The patterns of growth, precarity, and structural change underlying the emergence of the world's two middles are … living above absolute poverty but below a security-from poverty-line. The paper sets out what has happened. It is argued that …
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alive, enterprises afloat, and households out of poverty. The pandemic has macroeconomic dimensions. First, it affects … deficit and debt ratios. This paper discusses these macroeconomic dimensions, focusing on the developing world. The paper …
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development - particularly in the developing world. Yet while a large national income can result from resource wealth, it can also … be associated with acute social inequality and deep poverty. Many countries struggle to diversify their economies, and …
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