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the relationship between economic growth and poverty in Alagoas, all data was obtained from Atlas of Human Development for … to combat to the poverty qualitative, in others words, if that growth can be considered pro-poor. For that, we estimate … the elasticity of the poverty with the economic growth for the microregions from Alagoas. Our findings indicate a negative …
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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 … convergence of incomes and a pro-poor growth, which has led to a substantial decrease in the number of people Ii ving under the … poverty line. I also find that infrastructure has not been an important determinant for income mobility, and neither has …
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This paper aims to deepen our understanding of the determinants of income inequality in Uganda. Over the past 10 years …, Uganda experienced gradual and sustained economic growth and poverty reduction. The benefits of growth, however, are not … contribution of each income source to overall inequality; (ii) Decomposition of consumption expenditure into subgroups in order to …
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issues fromaccess to education and health services, consumption patterns, to the impact on poverty,inequality, and labor …In recent years, reducing poverty has been a core objective of social policy in Latin America. In2008, the incidence of … poverty reached almost a third of the population, of which 13 percent areclassified as extremely poor. Most Latin American …
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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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urban inequality.Chapter 3 examines the impacts of the 2001 U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement on provincial poverty …This thesis consists of three empirical chapters related to distributional outcomes, such as poverty and inequality, in … evolution of income inequality in Vietnam between 1993 and 2006. We construct consistent estimates of annual household income …
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Ab den 1980er Jahren entwickelte Amartya Sen eine neue Wohlfahrtstheorie: den Capability Approach (Sen, 1979; 1985; 1992; 1999; 2009). Dabei ersetzen Capabilities und Functionings, d.h. das, was Personen tatsächlich in der Lage sind zu tun und zu sein, den traditionellen Einkommensansatz. Armut ist im...
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in recent decades in the fight against poverty and the reduction of inequality on a global scale, which this century … has been an influential actor in the policies to tackle inequality and poverty worldwide. The historical account of the …
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in recent decades in the fight against poverty and the reduction of inequality on a global scale, which this century … has been an influential actor in the policies to tackle inequality and poverty worldwide. The historical account of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658678