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in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression …
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Negative attitudes toward groups in society are widespread and underpin systematic processes of social exclusion that marginalize people and deny them opportunities and dignity. This paper looks at the processes underlying social exclusion. It uses data covering Eastern Europe and Central Asia...
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This paper sheds light on the impact of improving employment and education conditions on poverty and social exclusion … and education lead countries to achieve the Europe 2020 poverty and social exclusion target with no other policy … different settings and uses widely available household survey data. The simulation model analyzes poverty and social exclusion …
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structural and institutional barriers identified by rational choice theory (poverty, exclusion by law or force, taste-based and …
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for economic growth and poverty reduction. This paper studies the pattern of female activity and gender segmentation in …
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Behavioral economics recognizes that mental models -- intuitive sets of ideas about how things work -- can bias an individual's perceptions of himself and the world. By representing an ascriptive category of people as unworthy, a mental model can foster unjust social exclusion of, for example, a...
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, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …
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This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures … unambiguously poverty-increasing and they are also invariant to changes in the distribution of a given set of deprivations amongst … axiomatic justification for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures. Given the nonlinear structure of these …
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This paper investigates whether social structure helps or hinders factor allocation using unusually rich data from The Gambia. Evidence indicates that land available for cultivation is allocated unequally across households; and that factor transfers are more common between neighbors, co-ethnics,...
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Centralized targeting registries are increasingly used to allocate social assistance benefits in developing countries. There are two key design issues that matter for targeting accuracy: (i) which households to survey for inclusion in the registry and (ii) how to rank surveyed households. The...
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