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This paper investigates the threshold effect of environmental degradation on the FDI-poverty nexus in sub … threshold regression using different measures of poverty and environmental degradation shows that the poverty reduction effect … environmental degradation, FDI contributes significantly to poverty reduction except when Household final consumption is used to …
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Motivation The COVID‐19 pandemic is the most recent instance of global development problems being liable to occur anywhere, challenging the assumption of a world divided into "developed" and "developing" countries. Recent scholarship has increasingly opted for the term "global development" to...
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Global economic convergence and protection of the climate are both worthwhile goals. Yet, there is an inherent tension between them. Greenhouse gases are a waste product that is often emitted in the production process. Limiting such emissions therefore hampers the accumulation of income and...
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better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty rate, and …
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1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely … high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in …
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economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …
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This paper investigates the concentration of access to safe water across income levels in Bolivia. In particular, it focuses on how privatisation has changed coverage, affordability and the concentration of access to water on the part of the poor. We compare the performance of cities in which...
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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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The study of the impact of public investment on poverty is currently of particular importance due to, among other … results to impute income in the MECOVI 2007 survey. In this way, we calculate various measures of poverty and indigence, and … poverty and indigence in Bolivia, however this effect is small. The most important results are evident in the headcount index …
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obtain measures for global inequality and poverty as well as global growth incidence curves. …
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