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This paper econometrically examines the impact of aid on the well-being of population sub-groups within 48 developing countries. This is a radical departure from previous empirical research of aid effectiveness at the country level, which has looked mainly at the relationship between aid and...
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This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …
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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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) measure of poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equi-proportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen …, lognormality has sometimes been assumed in order to determine analytically the poverty effects of income growth. We show that in a …
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Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …
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El propósito del ensayo es analizar los factores que explican la violencia enColombia; para ello, el autor, retoma elementos fundamentalmente en elneoinstitucionalismo, en el narcotráfico y en la desigualdad. González,después de explorara los tres elementos antes enunciados, plantea...
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The current unsustainable growth of the world economy is largely a consequence of the crisis of social capital experienced by much of the world's population. Declining social capital leads the economies to excessive growth, because people seek economic affluence as compensation for the emotional...
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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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This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in … from the Household Budget Survey to calculate poverty indices. The result of the Shapley value decomposition of poverty … bringing about the decline in poverty. This suggests that the drastic fall in absolute poverty over the survey period could be …
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economic recovery must helpto decrease the poverty and inequity.Growth and social goals as well as poverty and equity are …
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