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This paper provides a robust multidimensional evaluation of intra -urban differences. The hypothesis that joint …
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addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
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emphasis on education, training, and other human development efforts in its poverty reduction strategy since return to …This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality and poverty in China from 1987 to 2002 … agricultural income from the mid-1990s onward. Poverty persists, and tied in part to slow growth in agricultural commodity prices …
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addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
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the multidimensional nature of poverty and how to measure it, then identifies aggregate indicators of the performance of …Ownership is the essence of economic citizenship. Beyond actual possession, a sense of personal welfare and … Indian states and the overall achievements and failings of India in terms of poverty alleviation. In the second half, the …
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This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the … poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the … period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are …
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This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …
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, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … in each country, education contributes the most (about 30%) to multidimensional poverty. …In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …
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Does predicted global warming imply more hunger in the future of Latin America? Climate projections prepared by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are briefly presented, along with an analysis of existing estimates of their probable impact on agriculture and food...
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In the U.S. and other high-income countries, where most of the population lives in urban areas, there is intense scholarly and program interest in the effects of household and neighborhood living standards on health. Yet very few studies of developing-country cities have examined these issues....
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