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Poverty and Social Structure in Russia : An Analysis of the First Decade of Transition

Cerami, Alfio - 2019

This paper has four main objectives: (1) to monitor the rise of poverty and income inequality during the first decade of Russian transition; (2 to analyze the performance of the welfare state in reducing poverty and income inequality; (3) to identify the most vulnerable groups of transition; and...

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Causes of changing earnings inequality

Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....

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Causes of changing earnings inequality

Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

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Is poverty in the African DNA (gene)?

Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2015

A 2015 World Bank report on attainment of Millennium Development Goals concludes that the number of extremely poor has dropped substantially in all regions with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa. We assess if poverty is in the African gene by revisiting the findings of Ashraf and Galor (2013,...

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Is Poverty in the African DNA (Gene)?

Asongu, Simplice - 2017

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Fertility in Developing Countries

Schultz, T. Paul - 2007

The associations between fertility and outcomes in the family and society have been treated as causal, but this is inaccurate if fertility is a choice coordinated by families with other life-cycle decisions, including labour supply of mothers and children, child human capital, and savings....

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Essays in empirical development and education economics

Lange, Simon - 2015

This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the on-going debate about what international...

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Dynamic effects of drought on U.S. crop and livestock sectors

Leister, Amanda M.; Paarlberg, Philip Lynn; Lee, John G. - In: Journal of agricultural and applied economics : JAEE 47 (2015) 2, pp. 261-284

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Livestock asset dynamics among pastoralists in Northern Kenya

Mburu, Samuel Kahumu; Kaiser, Micha; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2017

the livestock asset dynamics using both non-parametric and semi-parametric techniques to establish the shape of the asset … accumulation path and to determine whether multiple equilibria exist. More specifically, using tropical livestock units as a … measure of livestock accumulation over time, we show not only that these assets converge to a single equilibrium but that …

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Socioeconomic burden of trypanosomiasis : evidence from crop and livestock production in Ethiopia

Abro, Zewdu; Fetene, Gebeyehu Manie; Kassie, Menale; … - In: Journal of agricultural economics : JAE 74 (2023) 3, pp. 785-799

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