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poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …
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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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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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The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing …-specific data are analysed for the US$1.25 and US$2.50 level poverty headcount ratios using the most recent World Bank data. The … study finds that on average income growth has been the major driving force behind both the declines and increases in poverty …
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ecological systems. The marginality concept leads to different development policies. While the prevalence of poverty declined by … about 50 percent in the past two decades, any further reduction of poverty will be more difficult, because of high diversity … of extremely poor people, and complex interrelations between poverty, exclusion and ecology. The marginality concept …
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This paper discusses how household panel surveys can be informative about the intergenerational transmission of poverty … have been used to examine the intergenerational transmission of poverty when using household panel surveys. Finally, we … requirements for analysis of the intergenerational transmission of poverty. …
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the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …
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and absolute poverty alleviation, although some important counter-examples emerge. …
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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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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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