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Retirement responses to a generous pension reform: evidence from a natural experiment in Eastern Europe
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2010
The retirement decision is under researched in developing and emerging countries, despite the topic's close relation to many development issues such as poverty reduction and social security, and despite the fact that population ageing will increasingly challenge the developing world. This paper...
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Equitable access to land as a means of poverty reduction in rural china
Hao, Yan - 2011
In China, as in many developing countries, poverty is primarily a rural phenomenon. Considerable efforts have been made over the last few decades to reduce poverty in China's rural areas; and indeed, the poverty rate in these areas has fallen from 30.7% in 1978 to 3.8% in 2009. This paper begins...
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Mainstreaming the adaptations and reducing the vulnerability of the poor due to climate change
Ranganathan, C. R.; Palanisami, K.; Kakumanu, K. R.; … - 2011
Many rural poor people in developing countries depend on agriculture and are highly influenced by climatic change. Hence, sustainable livelihood approaches are used at both policy and project level to initiate new poverty reduction activities and modify existing activities to improve livelihood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397339
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The Impact of Agricultural Mechanisation on Poverty Alleviation in a Seasonal Environment: a project evaluation from northern Bangladesh
Zug, Sebastian - 2008
Transformation processes in the mode of agricultural production can significantly influence both, the farmers' and the labourers' social welfare. Active promotion of new forms of agricultural production through Governments and NGOs has to be in line with their policies. In the example of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918476
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COVID-19 infection rates and social disadvantage in Ireland: An area-level analysis
Devlin, Anne; Whelan, Adele; McGuinness, Seamus - 2024
Existing research has shown that deprived areas were impacted to a greater extent by the COVID-19 pandemic in a multitude of ways but particularly in terms of the health impact. This research examines the health impact of the pandemic on people living in disadvantaged areas in Ireland. Health...
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School Subsidies for the Poor: Evaluating the Mexican Progresa Poverty Program
Schultz, T. Paul - 2001
This paper evaluates how the Progresa Program, which provides poor mothers in rural Mexico with education grants, has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369218
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The impact of trade liberalisation on exports, imports, the balance of payments and growth: The case of Mexico
Pacheco-López, Penélope - 2004
liberalisation involved in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on exports, imports and the balance of payments in Mexico … slowdown of Mexico's growth in recent years. NAFTA has not delivered the improved growth performance that was promised by … Mexico's political leaders at the time. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290694
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Ein quantitatives Szenario des Übergangs vom bestehenden System der Alterssicherung auf ein System der Grundsicherung für alle
Burgert, Derik; Dicke, Hugo; Glismann, Hans H.; Horn, … - 1999
This paper is concerned with establishing the data base that is necessary to analyse the double bürden argument which has been used to reject a sweeping reform of the German old-age pension System. We show that this argument does not hold if the existing pay-as-you-go system were to be replaced...
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Einkommenswirkung und fiskalische Kosten der grünen Garantierente
Geyer, Johannes; Buslei, Hermann - 2021
[Einleitung ...] In diesem Gutachten geben wir zunächst einen kurzen Überblick zu den wichtigsten Parametern der Garantierente. In Abschnitt 3 erläutern wir das methodische Vorgehen und stellen die Da-tengrundlage des Berichts vor. Abschnitt 4 beschäftigt sich mit dem verwendeten...
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Poverty incidence and sectoral growth: Evidence from Southeast Asia
Warr, Peter G. - 2002
In recent decades, absolute poverty incidence declined in most countries of Southeast Asia, even though in some of these countries inequality increased at the same time. This paper examines the relationship between these outcomes and the rate of economic growth in the agricultural, industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279267