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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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We examine experimentally two different types of trust: trust in another party's cooperation and trust in ability. In the cooperation condition, player A sends x {0, X} to player B. The amount x is multiplied by c = 3, and B can return y {0,3x}. (...)
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[...]The work of the National Equality Panel will underpin the response by all strategic publicauthorities to Clause One of the Equality Bill which places a new legal duty on key publicbodies to consider, in all the important decisions they make and all important actions theytake, how they can...
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There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as mendo and are less willing to enter a competition than men (e.g., Gneezy et al.(2003), Niederle and Vesterlund (2007)). In this paper, we use personalityvariables toto understand the underlying motives of women (and men) toenter a...
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