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The crisis in the developed world has spilled over into the lives of the world’s poorest, who are particularly vulnerable even to the smallest income shocks.
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are signs of rising inequality. The impact of growth is higher when using poverty measures that reflect distribution below … the poverty line and when using growth rates calculated from household surveys rather than national accounts. The urban-rural …, urban economic growth in the period after the reforms has brought significant gains to the rural poor as well as the urban …
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A new assessment is made of the developing world's progress against poverty. By the frugal $1 a day standard there were 1.1 billion poor people in 2001--almost 400 million fewer than 20 years earlier. During that period the number of poor people declined by more than 400 million in China, though...
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Widespread agreement that poverty is a multifaceted phenomenon encompassing deprivations in multiple dimensions clashes with the vociferous disagreement about how best to measure these deprivations. Drawing on the recent literature, this short paper reviews three methodological alternatives to...
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development policies. Thus, this study tried to replicate estimation results from Mu and van de Walle ("Rural Roads and Local … the most estimates from Mu and van de Walle. He finds the positive effect of rural road on local market development. In …
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development policies. Thus, this study tried to replicate estimation results from Mu and van de Walle ("Rural Roads and Local … the most estimates from Mu and van de Walle. He finds the positive effect of rural road on local market development. In …
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Purpose This paper presents a cross-sectional study that assessed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural migrants …/value Numerous studies have examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural migrants. However, there are limited studies that … estimate the impact of the proposed study based on the challenges faced by rural migrants in Bihar during the pandemic. …
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