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The nonagricultural rural sector represents a potentially important route out of poverty in Ecuador. Poverty declines … associated with better education and infrastructure access. Poverty could be expected to fall substantially with expansion in … Ecuador to assess the role of the nonagricultural rural sector in reducing poverty. That sector accounts for roughly 40 …
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evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics. We then describe evidence on economic mobility obtained via synthetic … classes by households over time: poverty is not inevitably a chronic condition. However, less clear are the factors driving … northern India over seven decades. We describe patterns of poverty dynamics and economic mobility in the village, and we …
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? national poverty lines and poverty measures, its focus on inclusion of the vulnerable population, and its identification of a … population segment that is neither poor nor at significant risk of falling into poverty. The paper also offers a typology of …
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Recent National Sample Surveys point to significant poverty reduction in India since 2004/05, with a marked … subgroup comprising non-poor households facing a heightened risk of falling into poverty. The paper documents a strong pattern … of upward mobility out of poverty and vulnerability into the middle class, with a noticeable acceleration between 2009 …
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Poverty estimates based on cross-section data provide static snapshots of poverty rates. Although a time series of … cross-section data can offer some insights into poverty trends, it does not allow for an assessment of dynamics at the … household level. Such a dynamic perspective on poverty generally calls for panel data and this kind of analysis can usefully …
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This paper provides evidence from eight developing countries of an inverse relationship between poverty and city size …. Poverty is both more widespread and deeper in very small and small towns than in large or very large cities. This basic … pattern is generally robust to choice of poverty line. The paper shows, further, that for all eight countries, a majority of …
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explore the relationship between rural diversification and poverty. Poverty in rural India declined at a modest rate during … progress. Poverty estimates correlate well with region-level data on changes in agricultural wage rates. Agricultural labor … preceding rounds. The implication for poverty is not immediately clear - the poor may be pushed into low-return casual non …
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