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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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Zukunft der Kinder: Konzepte, Projekte und Initiativen für, mit und von Kindern

Kreibich, Rolf; Thio, Sie Liong - Institut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung … - 2009

Anlässlich des 65. Geburtstags seines Gründers und Direktors, Prof. Dr. Rolf Kreibichorganisierte das IZT am 6. Dezember 2003 das Colloquium „Zukunftsforschung imSpannungsfeld von Visionen und Alltagshandeln“.Wie dem Titel dieser Veranstaltung zu entnehmen ist, bewegt sich moderne...

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Nutrition and Economic Destitution in Northern Ghana, 1930-1957. A Historical Perspective on Nutritional Economics

Destombes, Jerôme - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

explore a plausible route of causationbetween nutrition and poverty, the most urgent task is to disregard the …

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Mapping Poverty in Agar Town: Economic Conditions Prior to the Development of St. Pancras Station In 1866

Swensen, Steven P. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

Poverty.[...] …

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