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This paper examines the profile of poverty in Tajikistan, the most remoteand poorest of the independent states of the … Former Soviet Union. Datais used from the first nationally representative household surveyconducted in Tajikistan since …
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, quantitative,phase of the project, based on the UK Time Use Survey (TUS) 2000. The TUS is anationally representative household …
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Following the implementation of the government’s fuel poverty strategy in 2001, Warm Front is expected to make a …’s target of eliminating fuel poverty among vulnerable households by 2010, based largely on the recommendations in a recent … and fuel poverty.[...] …
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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.[...] …
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poverty and social exclusion in the labourmarket. A particular attention is devoted to the working poor and precariousworkers …. This analysis is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty MonitoringSurvey, which is the only survey to date that allows a …
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Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turnof the 20th century …. This paper introduces a newly-discovered household budget data set forthe early 1900s. These data are more representative … deficiencies. Weuse these data to estimate urban poverty in the British Isles in 1904... …
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A century ago, Thorstein Veblen introduced socially contingent con-sumption into the economic literature. This paper complements the scarceempirical literature by testing his conjecture on South African householddata and nds that Black and Coloured households spend relatively moreon visible...
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, income and poverty dynamics.We illustrate this framework with an application to poverty rates amongyoung women in the US. We …The rise in inequality and poverty is one of the most important economicand social issues in recent times. But in …) household income dynamics. This is largelybecause of the difficulties created by the fact that on top of the humancapital issues …
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