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This paper shows that in Belgium, programs to prevent electricity cuts among the poor often do not reach the poorest. This is less because the poorest cannot benefit from the programs (if they apply, they almost always are granted benefits) than because they often fail to apply for the programs....
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justice are very different. This paper focuses on the issue of the knowledge and motivation necessary to fight poverty. We … individuals in the fight against poverty. …
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Following the economic and legal reforms of the early 1990s, the Government of Mexico has developed new agricultural …
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restaurant thus appears to contribute to the fight against social exclusion as much as to that against poverty per se. …
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This paper analyzes the evolution of poverty in Latin America. In 1998, about a third of the population was poor, and … one sixth extreme poor. This represents 179 million poor people, of which 89 million lived in extreme poverty. The share …
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regularly. Confronted with rising poverty after the economic crisis of 1995, the Mexican government progressively changed its … poverty reduction strategy, ending universal tortilla subsidies and instead funding new investment in human capital through …,000 municipalities, its 1999 budget of US$777 million equaled 0.2 percent of Mexico's gross domestic product. The high level of funding …
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