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households into poverty. In this paper we look at the two most significant of those crises that took place in Mexico and … responses to mitigate the impact of poverty and vulnerability in the wake of the current crisis. …
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options for poverty alleviation in a given country. …
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During the last twenty years, Mexico experienced a big increase in the migration of rural labor force to the United … history of the recipient village affects the impact that reductions in remittances have on rural poverty levels. The … hypothesis is that for a given decrease in remittances the increase in poverty is bigger in villages with a higher migration …
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determinants of each type of poverty for the case of Mexico. It was found that 69 percent of total poverty is chronic and 31 …This paper uses panel data to decompose total poverty into its chronic and transient components and to estimate the … poverty are different from those explaining transient poverty. These results indicate that chronic poverty is an issue which …
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Partridge and Rickman explore the underlying spatial, demographic, and economic contributors to poverty rates and … examine the spatial variation of state and county poverty rates and their trends over time. They conclude that a unique … combination of place-based and person-based policies is needed to help defeat poverty in the most distressed American central …
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Analysen zu Einkommensungleichheit, Armut und Mobilität in Deutschland basieren überwiegend auf den Mikrodaten der … Bildungscharakteristika gibt, was einen nicht unerheblichen Einfluss auf Ausmaß und Struktur von Ungleichheit und Armut haben kann. Während in …
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This paper investigates the relationship between height and economic development in Spain in the modern period. The relation is investigated using recently constructed times series with recruitment data of conscripts. We observed changes in average height along the analyzed period. These...
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Celebrated by academics, multilateral organizations, policy-makers and the media, Mexico's Progresa …/Oportunidades conditional cash transfers program (CCT) is constantly used as a model of a successful anti-poverty program. Here I argue that the … approach to poverty reduction, ensuring the technical soundness and effectiveness of the program, incorporating rigorous impact …
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Celebrated by academics, multilateral organizations, policymakers and the media, Mexico’s Progresa … conceptual approach to poverty reduction, ensuring the technical soundness and effectiveness of the program’s design … extent, on the author’s personal experience when she was senior advisor and chief of the Poverty and Inequality Unit at the …
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This article rescues and describes the trajectory of peasant production in Mexico since the eighties, and its … México desde la década de los ochenta, y su proceso de descomposición en el contexto del neoliberalismo. El argumento es que …
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