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, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions … can be drawn from. First, urbanization has a significant effect on reducing both poverty of rural residents and poverty of …
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in the Philippines helped mitigate the poverty impact by allocating more fiscal resources to build local resilience while …
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This paper investigates the long-term effect of child poverty on labor market outcomes using a 14-year span of data …
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countries. The number of infant deaths is still quite high, nutrition of children and women continues to be problematic, and …
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The impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak have heavily affected CAREC member countries, which include Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Pakistan, the People's Republic of China (PRC), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The COVID-19 crisis and the...
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after children or sick household members, higher prices and/or lack of availability of staple items, reduced access to … experiencing financial difficulties by 17 percentage points. About 27% of children who stopped attending school could not fully … difficulties - significantly affect the intensity of online classes taken by children in an average household. …
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look after children or sick household members, higher prices and/or lack of availability of staple items, reduced access to … on household finances, even though incomes have stabilized somewhat. Only about 7% of children who stopped attending … children in an average household. This has negative implications for longer-term human capital formation. …
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Exploring data from the urban and migrant household surveys of the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP), this paper dissects the underlying causes of the depressing effect of the hukou system on migrant household consumption into two channels. On one hand, the disentitlement to local urban...
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Infrastructure is often seen as a critical factor in economic development. However, impact assessment for infrastructure projects is a challenge due to a number of methodological issues. Both developing economies and countries in transition could benefit from such studies to better inform their...
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Contradicting the conventional wisdom of constant factor shares, the portion of national income accruing to labor has been trending downward in the last three decades. This decline must have contributed to rising inequality as labor income is more evenly distributed than capital income. This...
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