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concise overview of the report in the eight areas it covers: poverty, education, employment and inequality, energy, the …
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Measuring the equity of opportunity in a given society is an essential ingredient in the formulation of policies and programs that promote inclusive growth. In this paper, equity of opportunity is defined and measured through the theoretical framework of the social opportunity function, a...
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Econometric analyses of European datasets suggest that income aspirations increase with current income.  This finding is consistent with the adaptation hypothesis - the notion that individual aspirations adjust to reflect personal circumstances and living conditions.  We add to these existing...
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generate a poverty trap.  The setting is rural China, and the data are from a national household survey for 2002, designed with … that poverty has an adverse effect on both the quality and quantity of education - so contributing to a poverty trap.  The … community income - so also contributing to a poverty trap.  The third strand brings no fewer than 17 estimated relationships …
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said that expanding educational facilities and improving quality of education are key instruments and reducing poverty is a … poverty and education and many more international studies revealed that improvement in education reducing poverty resulted in … regional balanced development. This paper aims to analyze the regional disparities in reducing poverty and increase in literacy …
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This paper deals with consumption dynamics and its effects on poverty. An econometric model is proposed in which … changes in poverty. Second, it allows distinguishing between chronic and transient poverty, by defining as chronically poor … those households whose level of consumption sustainable in the long term lies below the poverty line. This definition of …
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The article provides an overview of the Pakistani economy and addresses various sectoral issues currently being faced by the economy. The first and the most critical problem highlighted concerns the protection of the poor. Other issues highlighted relate to education, healthcare, housing,...
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A little over one million individuals in Australia between the ages of 24 and 64 years are in Freedom poverty – they … lives of these most disadvantaged individuals. Indeed, of those in Freedom poverty, 80% are not in employment. But these … force participation. Indeed, 49% of individuals in freedom poverty who were out of the labour force cited ill health as the …
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Poverty is multidimensional in nature. Poverty is associated not only with insufficient income or consumption but also … low self-esteem and powerlessness. Since poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon, measurement of poverty must cover many … have opened new perspectives on measuring and analysing poverty and development with the help of multidimensional concept …
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The impact of education on earnings and thus on poverty works largely through labour market. Along with some other … socio economic factors, education does play a crucial role to alleviate poverty. Better educated people has greater … to make an attempt to show how the universalization of education can be used as a tool to eradicate poverty in near …
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