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As preferential trade agreements are growing in number and depth, assessment of their economic impacts has become more important to inform policy-makers facing a multitude of potential preferential trade agreements. This paper provides novel ex ante estimates of the impacts of two key...
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Survey 2016/17. This survey instrument will be used by the Government of Bangladesh to estimate reliable poverty and welfare …
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registered a decline in poverty from 46 percent in 2010/11 to 39 percent in 2013/14. This declining poverty trend was broadly … national poverty numbers and corroborates the poverty rates published by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda …. Underlying the paper?s conclusions is a detailed theoretical and analytical framework for making poverty comparisons over time …
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infrastructure improvements on Belt and Road Initiative and non?Belt and Road Initiative countries' trade flows, growth, and poverty …, the Belt and Road Initiative could contribute to lifting 7.6 million people from extreme poverty and 32 million from … moderate poverty. Third, the initiative would lead to a modest increase in global carbon dioxide emissions, with a complex set …
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collecting detailed consumption or income data for measuring poverty due to the required length of the interview and complexity … technique can produce reliable poverty estimates from only 10 to 20 simple questions. However, this approach may lead to biased …. By conducting the first survey experiment to examine potential differences in poverty estimates between interview modes …
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inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct …
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business services. The paper assesses the poverty and shared prosperity impacts of deep integration to reduce these three types … in the macroeconomic variables that impact poverty and shared prosperity. The model estimates are used in the Global … Income Distribution Dynamics microsimulation model to obtain assessments of the changes in the poverty headcount and shared …
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trends scenario. Finally, rebalancing reduces the prevalence of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa compared with the isolated … negative effects of China's slowdown, which slightly increase the incidence of poverty. Overall, China's slowdown and … poverty, but the extent of this varies by country …
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The Millennium Development Goal of halving the incidence of extreme poverty from its 1990 level will be achieved in … 2015, and the international development community is now moving to a new goal of ?ending extreme poverty.? However, the … countries have zero or only one poverty estimate. This paper refers to such lack of poverty data as ?data deprivation,? because …
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poverty reduction will depend on several factors. The outlook will likely be good if African countries can continue the gains … economy additionally by 22 percent by 2030 relative to the base case and reduce poverty by an additional 51 million people …
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