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The wave of upbeat stories on the developing world's emerging middle class has reinvigorated a debate on how social class in general and the middle class in particular ought to be defined and empirically measured. With the aim of adding clarity to this debate, this dissertation provides a...
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Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to …
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). For the analysis, the toolbox of pro-poor growth analysis is applied to several educational indicators. We find drastic … rising average attendance, while inequality in completion rates or schooling years increases with rising completion rates or … initial inequality in education. At the regional level, educational progress was generally more pro-poor in Asia and Latin …
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Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing … countries. The diagnostic pro-poor growth toolbox has so far focused on the income dimension as well as key non … that take into account the extraordinary importance of agricultural productivity for poverty reduction in developing …
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poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …
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role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …
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members pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some …
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from this safety net, and the presence of unemployed members pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also …
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pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some unemployed …
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