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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
in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …
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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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Cette recherche analyse l’impact de la hausse des prix des produits alimentaires (2008-2009) et des mesures de réformes mises en oeuvre par le Togo, sur la pauvreté, la vulnérabilité, les inégalités et les enfants. Grâce à un modèle d’équilibre général partiel et des données de...
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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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paper is to deliver a fresh assessment of the evolution of inequality and poverty across OECD countries over the last … explores whether contracting inequalities coexist with increasing poverty. The paper adds to previous studies by introducing …
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Notwithstanding impressive progress, poverty and inequality remain high in Chile in OECD comparison, and the tax … be quite narrowly targeted at families living in extreme poverty. Over time, the government should consider increasing … support for the poor to find jobs of decent quality will be key to help them overcome poverty in a sustainable way. Ingreso …
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