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, Uganda experienced gradual and sustained economic growth and poverty reduction. The benefits of growth, however, are not …
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among consumption variability, the level than nonfood consumption, the incidence of poverty, and the probability of being … ever poor and the proportion of time spent in poverty are also explored for Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Russia. All the case …
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In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually focused solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line …
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Many products consumed on college campuses such as coffee and chocolate come from developing countries where producers are often paid insufficiently and exploited. Fair Trade certification of products guarantees producers a fair price and other social benefits. The objective of my CE/T project...
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There has been an increasing demand for involving stakeholders in the development of sustainable civil infrastructure systems. It has been acknowledged that one key element of a project is stakeholder involvement. As such, failure to successfully involve the stakeholders of an infrastructure...
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social sustainability goals – reducing poverty, inequality and corruption whilst improving access to education and health …
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high population growth. According to the vicious circle theory, natural resource scarcity coupled with poverty leads to … poverty lead to increases in fertility for two of the three countries examined. The coefficients of natural resource scarcity … environment but also an important tool if reduced population growth is an objective. Third, reducing poverty is an important …
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