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While a stated goal of minimum wage increases is to benefit low-income workers, some employers are not obligated to provide at least minimum wages to all employees. U.S. farm employers comprise one of these groups. Employees of large farms and H2-A workers (temporary nonimmigrant workers...
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This paper investigates the impacts of non-traditional exports on household outcomes in rural Zambia. It is the attempt to identify and estimate second round effects that distinguishes this paper from most of the current literature. We study the impacts on income, child health and education...
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The poverty levels in Eritrea are alarming. In the light of the escalating nature of poverty, there is an urgent need … for a poverty alleviation initiative to reduce miseries of the majority of the poor. An attempt is made in this paper to … analyse the incidence of poverty in the country with a particular focus on Agriculture. It also shed a light on the …
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newly available household surveys have permitted the estimation of measures of poverty among cotton producers in West and … Central Africa, as well as simulations of the impact that changes in producer prices may have on poverty. …
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This study examines if household access to microfinance reduces poverty in Pakistan, and if so, to what extent and … across which dimensions of well-being by taking account of the multi-dimensional aspect of poverty. The study draws on first … participating households, that is, the poverty reducing-effects were observed and statistically significant on a number of …
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This paper measures the impacts of cash crops on household consumption expenditure and poverty in rural Viet Nam using … result, crop sales have positive and statistically significant impacts on poverty reduction for crop-growing households and … the rural population. The poverty-reducing impacts are found to be positive for all three Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty …
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Environmental changes affect the livelihood of the rural population. This is especially true for those households who mainly rely on farming for their subsistence. In Northern Ghana, during the last two decades, soil erosion, the increasing unpredictability of the rains and the raise in the...
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households) in the sample villages is below poverty line (at Rs. 400 per capita per month). On the other hand, no more than 39 ….5 percent of the people (and 37.36 percent households) is likely to stand under the poverty line (at Rs. 425 per capita per ….31. The prime reasons of poverty are excessive dependence on primary sector, disguised unemployment, poor development of …
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of labour is near- zero and productivity of land provides only subsistence. Poverty keeps consumption and savings low …
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Slow agricultural development has restrained economic growth and poverty alleviation in Cambodia. The country … impact of access to land on poverty in a logistic regression framework using household survey data. Increased access to land … is shown to significantly lower the risk of household poverty. Tenure security, land improvements and irrigation …
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