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Econometric analyses of European datasets suggest that income aspirations increase with current income. This finding is consistent with the adaptation hypothesis –the notion that individual aspirations adjust to reflect personal circumstances and living conditions. We add to these existing...
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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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This paper uses three waves of panel surveys at the household level to study growth and poverty in Albania over the … poverty line. I also find that infrastructure has not been an important determinant for income mobility, and neither has … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …
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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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