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, technology, openness of the economy, inequality in land distribution and poverty. First, we have identified a number of important … endogenous will reduce poverty significantly through the overall economic growth. Overall, policies to increase agricultural … productivity and agricultural employment are likely to increase non-agricultural growth, overall growth and reduce poverty, where …
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time and whether the growth pattern affected poverty in low- and middle-income economies in Asia. We first examine whether … evidence that the labor productivity gap reduces rural and urban poverty, as well as national-level inequality …
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expenditure and poverty, whilst there is some diversity among different ethnic groups. Finally, the decomposition analyses reveal …
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We test for the existence of a Poverty Nutrition Trap (PNT) in the case of calories and four important micronutrients …
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. Second, the quantile regression approach helps us identify the exact group for which the poverty-nutrition trap holds. The …
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deprivation and poverty, and argue against delinking of the two. We analyse poverty nutrition traps, whether child undernutrition …
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India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been hailed as one of the country’s most creative social initiatives. Since the program was begun only recently (in 2004-05) there is a need to assess household access to this program and persistence of benefits to households not...
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The Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) - the largest food subsidy program in India - has been a dismal failure in targeting the poor. The present paper examines its performance in three Indian states - Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, based on primary data collected for this...
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The Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) — the largest food subsidy programme in India — has been a dismal failure in targeting the poor. The present paper examines its performance in three Indian states — Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, based on primary data collected for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105218