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communities who have no young children. The authors explore links between income diversification strategies, household assets, the …
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and poverty on arson, in ways expected from theory. All findings support an economic model of crime. …
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therefore depends on a household’s participation in off-farm work and government farm programs. …
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factors that determine farm household prosperity are the primary operator's education level and ethnicity, education level of … population. The absolute measure adds annualized wealth to a farm household's income. …
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notifications of 1340/100 000 in 1996. These suburbs are characterised by overcrowding, high unemployment and poverty. It is …. Studies have recently linked tuberculosis transmission to locations outside the household, and have associated these places … tuberculosis notifications with unemployment and its associated poverty emerged as the strongest association. …
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tremendous increase in poverty and income inequality in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Much of the literature argues that the …’s economic empowerment: the labour market, education and poverty. Large and complex data sets on peoples’ attitudes and … greater in transition than in OECD countries.On the other hand, once the feminisation of poverty is concerned data on …
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we then combine to arrive at estimates of overall poverty from 1970 to 2000. However, data for the last few years of this … that these estimates are worst case estimates of poverty trends after 1995. An alternative, less pessimistic estimate is … to arrive at overall estimates of inequality and poverty; next we discuss the trends in poverty as derived from our data …
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There is now a consensus that economic growth is a dominant determinant of poverty. That is, poverty reduction requires … raises mean income and reduces the proportion of the population living below any absolute poverty line. It is generally … believed that growth that is distribution neutral has a greater impact on poverty reduction than growth that generates …
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A new strand of literature has recently sought to investigate possible links between technological changes, observed modifications to firms' organizational structure and the evolution of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers. After a brief overview of such approaches, this essay...
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