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Economic Growth and Poverty: Does Formalisation of Informal Enterprises Matter?
Ishengoma, Esther K.; Kappel, Robert - 2006
The informal sector (IS) plays a significant role in developing countries viz. the provision of employment, income and supplying ignored markets. However, working and employment conditions within the sector are still poor. Its expansion and changing structures have thus drawn the attention of...
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Challenges and policy lessons for the growth-employment-poverty nexus in developing countries
Fields, Gary S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24
to the three billion people who are poor using the $2.50 PPP dollar poverty line. A much larger number - 900 million … protections, and type of work), analysts and donors need to understand better how employment, growth, poverty and other factors …
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Debt, poverty and resource management in a rural smallholder economy
Barbier, Edward B.; López, Ramón - 1998
This paper explores the link between poverty and resource allocation, including the management of natural resources, by …'s investment strategy and, consequently, resource management and household poverty: (i) Changes in output and input prices, and (ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608455
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The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …
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The social impact of globalization in the developing countries
Lee, Eddy; Vivarelli, Marco - 2006
and absolute poverty alleviation, although some important counter-examples emerge. …
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Middlemen, non-profits, and poverty
Chau, Nancy H.; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - 2009
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a fair-trade premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This paper...
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Keeping a low profile: What determines the allocation of aid by non-governmental organizations?
Koch, Dirk-Jan; Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; … - 2008
NGOs play an important role in international development cooperation, but the allocation of NGO aid has rarely been mapped, let alone explained. Based on a representative dataset for 61 important NGOs from various OECD countries, we analyze the targeting of NGO aid across a large number of...
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Has trade liberalisation in poor countries delivered the promises expected?
Pacheco-López, Penélope; Thirlwall, A. P. - 2009
countries with respect to poverty reduction, the distribution of income within countries, the distribution of income between …
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Debt relief, demand for education, and poverty
Dabla-Norris, Era; Matovu, John M.; Wade, Paul - 2002
poverty reduction in HIPC countries by focusing on one important channel of impact—human capital accumulation. Our simulation … results suggest that poverty and growth objectives would be mainly enhanced if resources are targeted at the primary and … secondary level of education. In addition, targeting education spending to households below the poverty line can potentially …
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Sind hohe Standards immer gut? Eine wirtschaftsethische Perspektive
Pies, Ingo - 2013
Gemessen an den jeweiligen Bedürfnissen der Bevölkerung, können Standards in Entwicklungsländern sowohl zu hoch als auch zu niedrig sein. Beides ist möglich. Zu niedrige Standards sind oft darauf zurückzuführen, dass es an Verfahren fehlt, die kollektives Handeln ermöglichen. Übernimmt...
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