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The great promise of surveys in which people report their own level of life satisfaction is that such surveys might provide a straightforward and easily collected measure of individual or national well-being that aggregates over the various components of well-being, such as economic status,...
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The great promise of surveys in which people report their own level of life satisfaction is that such surveys might provide a straightforward and easily collected measure of individual or national well-being that aggregates over the various components of well-being, such as economic status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558597
poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …
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We use the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-being (LIMEW), the most comprehensive income measure available to date, to compare economic well-being in Canada and the United States in the first decade of the 21st century. This study represents the first international comparison based on...
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underlies the design of most anti-poverty programs or other redistributive economic policies. Notwithstanding, extended income …
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-record data sets for multiple countries, in addition to providing summary statistics from those data, including poverty and … addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality. …
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the ECV of the 2003 This paper analyzed the concepts and measures of poverty. From this perspective, this document studied …
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The income poverty of a household does not only depend upon its income but it also depends upon its capability to … in poverty reduction programme is the generation and availability of decent works. There is no denial of the fact that … income plays an important role in poverty reduction, but it is not the sole factor. The earning of a person depends on the …
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A little over one million individuals in Australia between the ages of 24 and 64 years are in Freedom poverty – they … lives of these most disadvantaged individuals. Indeed, of those in Freedom poverty, 80% are not in employment. But these … force participation. Indeed, 49% of individuals in freedom poverty who were out of the labour force cited ill health as the …
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municipal HDI is affected by low levels of per capita income and high poverty levels. Thus, the establishment of mechanisms that … increase the amount of income and combat poverty will allow the Michoacan society aspire to higher levels of human development … same time in the reduction of poverty, while the rest will have to increase their income levels and reduce poverty with the …
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