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Hills, John; Le Grand, Julian; Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

of the term, and the extent and nature of problems it encompasses. Aspectscovered include poverty dynamics …

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Outcomes from a community-based employment programme

Evans, Helen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

Twenty-five years ago, in a small closed-down shop inHighbury, the idea of helping some people into workthrough their own bootstraps was tried out in some ofLondon’s poorest communities. It relied on the motivationand basic willingness to learn of people out of work and inneed. The missing...

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Informal Employment in Countries in Transition:A conceptual framework

Bernabè, Sabine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

In the past few years the informal sector in countries in transition hasincreasingly become the focus of research, public policy and the media.The term ‘informal sector’ has been used to describe an extremely widespectrum of activities, which do not necessarily have much in common,such as...

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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 …

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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 …

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Poverty, Children’s Health, and Health Care Utilization

Wolfe, Barbara L. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 1999

[...]The issue of the links between poverty, health, and accessto medical care is one that has received considerable …

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Public Health and the Public Agenda

Thurm, Kevin - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 1999

[...]In the time that I have been at Health andHuman Services, one of the things I have learned is thatthe public health profession has quite a lot to teach policymakers.That is something many New Yorkers learnedearlier this decade when Dr. Margaret Hamburg was NewYork City’s health...

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From John Lindsay to Rudy Giuliani: The Decline of the Local Safety Net?

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 1999

[...]We consider two puzzles about the local safety netand New York City. First, why do big cities, and particularlyNew York, engage in so much more redistribution thansmall towns? The broad question (the connection betweencities and redistribution) is the topic of the companionpaper to this one...

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