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, inequality and poverty, which paves a vista for further academic discourse.Design/methodology/approach – As a meta …, inequality and poverty should be investigated further. Unemployment increases levels of inequality and poverty within society … problem of global unemployment, the corollary of which is endemic inequality and poverty.Practical implications – Increases in …
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Because of the difficulty in securing traditional forms of credit, the poor are often driven into the fringe economy for check cashing, bill paying and short-term loans. These services involve high user fees and exorbitant interest rates that rival or even exceed those for illegal loan sharking....
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In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually focused solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line …
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Many products consumed on college campuses such as coffee and chocolate come from developing countries where producers are often paid insufficiently and exploited. Fair Trade certification of products guarantees producers a fair price and other social benefits. The objective of my CE/T project...
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growing resources effectively to improve the welfare of the population and reduce poverty. The poverty head count index is ….6 percentage point reduction due to growth and a 1.2 percentage point increase due to inequality change.Since poverty is most … better business environment and infrastructure. The country needs a new trading arrangement with the European Union. Poverty …
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This paper uses three waves of panel surveys at the household level to study growth and poverty in Albania over the … poverty line. I also find that infrastructure has not been an important determinant for income mobility, and neither has … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of economic reforms on poverty levels in India during the period … of population living below poverty line is used as proxy for aggregate level of poverty levels. The empirical study is … run equilibrium relationship between the two and the direction of causality flowing from reforms to poverty. Further, it …
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Poverty is a significant world wide issue. Although literature on the impact of aminimum wage in the agricultural … agricultural sector of the North-West province? - Is there any relation between poverty and unemployment? - Does the implementation …
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promote economic growth and alleviate poverty. The first of three major issues in this dissertation analyses macroeconomic … second issue evaluates policies which alleviate poverty by increasing agricultural production, creating employment and …
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promote economic growth and alleviate poverty. The first of three major issues in this dissertation analyses macroeconomic … second issue evaluates policies which alleviate poverty by increasing agricultural production, creating employment and …
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