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rural China. First, they assume nonfarm income as an exogenous transfer to total income to decompose the Gini index. Second … household income. The results show that nonfarm activity reduces rural income inequality by raising the income of poor …
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alleviation at the national level, while Cameroon's domestic trade liberalization has adverse poverty and inequality impacts …The aim of this paper is to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon …. During the recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon has enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty with the headcount index …
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China's Belt and Road Initiative aims to improve connectivity between China and more than 70 countries through … 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 …
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negative effects of China's slowdown, which slightly increase the incidence of poverty. Overall, China's slowdown and …This paper explores the economic impacts of two related tracks of China's expected transformation?economic slowdown and … on Sub-Saharan African countries. The paper finds that an average annual slowdown of gross domestic product in China of 1 …
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true value when there is correlated incidence heterogeneity. A case study for a large cash transfer program in China … data are deceptive. The program entails a nominal 100 percent benefit withdrawal rate -- a poverty trap. However, the paper …
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on the likelihood that households in rural China fall below the poverty line. In this application, it is shown that … migration is important for reducing the likelihood that poor households remain in poverty and that non-poor households fall into … effects of an endogenous treatment on a binary outcome. The model is next used to examine the impact of rural-urban migration …
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inevitable as China introduced a market system, but inequality may have been exacerbated rather than mitigated by a number of …China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a … remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 …
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around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other developing … countries, with the probability of migration peaking in the late teens or early twenties. The paper examines in detail the age … participation in schooling and work in the destination country, the types of jobs they do, and the age of return migration. The …
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This paper analyzes the magnitude and predictors of misreporting on intimate partner and sexual violence in Nigeria and Rwanda. Respondents were randomly assigned to answer questions using one of three survey methods: an indirect method (list experiment) that gives respondents anonymity; a...
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(private) goods to the poor, such as latrines. Controlling for poverty, more unequal communities are less likely to receive … inequality used in the empirical analysis, and are strongest for expenditure shares at the top of the distribution …
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