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What We Know About Neighbourhood Change: A literature review
Lupton, Ruth; Power, Anne T. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
This report was jointly commissioned by the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit (NRU) in the Office ofthe Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) and the Economic and Social Research Council. It containsboth full and summary reports of a literature review of neighbourhood change, undertaken withthe primary aim of...
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A simple model of inequality, occupational choice, and development
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Jiang, Neville Nien-Huei - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
We analyze a simple and tractable model of occupational choice in the presence of credit marketimperfections. We examine the effect of parameters governing technology and transaction costs, andhistory, in terms of the initial wealth distribution, in determining the long-term wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008911474
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Poverty and Inequality and Social Policy in China
Li, Bingqin; Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable andnoted feature of Chinese society. The paper … socialpolicies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined.The limitations of a social policy that is … approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty andinequality are considered.[...] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354041
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Developing Family Development Accounts in Taipei:Policy Innovation from Income to Assets
Cheng, Li-Chen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
In July 2000, the Taipei City Government launched an anti-poverty program,Taipei Family Development Accounts, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354045
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New sources of financing for development: a review of options : Commission staff working paper
Europäische Kommission - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635827
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Directory of Development Organizations
Wesselink, Bert
The directory of development organizations, listing 70,000 development organizations, has been prepared to facilitate international cooperation and knowledge sharing in development work, both among civil society organizations, academic and research institutions, governments and the private sector.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005856510
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Endogenous Lifetime and Economic GrowthRevisited
Bunzel, Helle; Qiao, Xue - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004
. Interestingly, TFP growth can help economies escape the vicious cycleof poverty.[...] …
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Identifying Social Entrepreneurs Servingthe Poor at the BoP
George, Abraham M. - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2009
for‐profit activitymight be the long‐sought panacea for solving poverty at the so‐called Base of the Pyramid(BoP) ‐‐ the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418710
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Do Europe’s Minimum Income Schemes ProvideAdequate Shelter against the Economic Crisis andHow, If at All, Have Governments Responded?
Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changesthat have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens withadequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on datafor 24 European Union countries,...
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THE WATTS’ POVERTY INDEXWITH EXPLICIT PRICE VARIABILITY
Muller, Christophe - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 1998
We derive an explicit formula of the Watts’ poverty index, in terms of parametersof bivariate lognormal distributions … prices and nominal living standards in poverty; interpret the e¤ects on povertyof changes in price distributions; estimate … poverty when only means and variancesof price indices and nominal living standards are known.Using data from peasants in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522206