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What do we know about pro-poor growth and regional poverty in Nigeria?

Ichoku, Hyacinth Eme; Agu, Chukwuma; Ataguba, John Ele-Ojo - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 3, pp. 147-172

This study investigates the pro-poorness of income growth in Nigeria. Using nationally representative data for 1996 and 2004, overall income growth in Nigeria was found not to be pro-poor. The richer segments of the population appropriate greater share of benefits from economic growth. Household...

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The determinants of domestic resources mobilization in Togo : the case of public revenuesx

Amadou, Akilou - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 1, pp. 77-84

the public revenues. -- domestic resources ; public revenues ; error correction model ; Sub-Saharan Africa ; Togo …

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Key sectors of the Namibian economy

Humavindu, Michael N.; Stage, Jesper - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 2 (2013), pp. 1-15

The present paper presents key sector research for the Namibian economy, based on input–output and Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) analyzes. The analyses were derived from a Namibian SAM for the 2004 period, using 28 economic sectors. We find that mining and government services are currently...

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Una aproximación a la construcción de un indicador de pobreza multidimensional : cuáles son los focos de riesgo en España?

Poza Lara, Carlos; Fernández Cornejo, José Andrés - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 10 (2010), pp. 43-72

The aim of this paper is to construct a multidimensional poverty indicator, to detect the main poverty risk focuses in Spain. The indicator, which has been developed through a second-order factor analysis, consists of an objective and a subjective part, which incorporate various dimensions such...

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¿Qué factores explican la pobreza multidimensional en España? . una aproximación a través de los modelos de ecuaciones estructurales

Poza Lara, Carlos; Fernández Cornejo, José Andrés - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 12 (2011), pp. 81-110

The aim of this study is to present the most important factors that explain multidimensional poverty in Spain, highlighting the relationships between the explanatory elements themselves in the spirit of enhancing the effects of poverty policy. For this purpose, we have designed a Structural...

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Distribution of poverty and inequality indices for various groups in Greece using the bootstrap technique

Aggelopoulou, Dimitra; Zografakis, Stavros; Sypsas, … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 2, pp. 81-97

The present work estimates poverty and inequality indices in various groups that are known to have high contributions … to poverty and inequality, such as farmers, pensioners and families with 3 or more children. Using the bootstrap … technique, we estimate confidence intervals for these indices and examine if the decrease of poverty and inequality during the …

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Distribución espacial de la pobreza en Chile

Agostini, Claudio A.; Brown, Philip H.; Góngora, Diana … - In: Estudios de economía 35 (2008) 1, pp. 79-110

Chile's recent success in reducing poverty has been remarkable, with poverty rates falling by approximately two-thirds over the last 20 years. However, further gains against poverty may be inhibited by the increasing difficulty associated with targeting fewer poor people and better, more...

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The impact of income adjustments in the CASEN survey on the measurement of inequality in Chile

Bravo, David; Valderrama Torres, José A. - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 43-65

paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a … leads to important changes in the top-end of the distribution and to an overestimation in the main inequality indicators in … Chile. Chile looks more unequal in international relative terms due to this adjustment. -- inequality ; poverty ; income …

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Höhepunkt der Einkommensungleichheit in Deutschland überschritten?

Grabka, Markus M.; Goebel, Jan; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 43, pp. 3-15

income inequality ; Poverty risk ; SOEP …

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Relationship between economic freedom and pro-poor growth : evidence from Pakistan (1995-2010)

Zaman, Khalid; Khan, Muhammad Mushtaq; Ahmad, Mehboob - In: Romanian journal of fiscal policy : RJFP 2 (2011) 1, pp. 24-35

strong relationship between economic freedom, poverty reduction and income inequality. Results reveal that larger the …. -- economic freedom indicators ; pro-poor growth ; poverty ; inequality ; Pakistan …

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