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households regarding children's outcomes; that is, understanding inequality in health outcomes in the childhood in Brazil … truly matters is still a debated issue. Brazil presents a huge level of income and until recently there has been little data … whether health inequality in Brazil is linked to income inequality.  …
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/actual “poverty tours”, the article argues that while Antigua NGOs develop and host these poverty tours as a means of moving “hearts …
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, income, assets and a much lower level of poverty than those without nonfarm participation. The intensity of nonfarm … implications – The findings suggest that any poverty alleviation policies should aim at improving the access of ethnic minorities …
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inequality and to design effective intervention policies. The purpose of this paper is to focus on poverty reduction and welfare … implication of the empirical findings suggests that Fiji is unlikely to achieve its Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty …
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Purpose – There has been growing interest in recent years in modelling various poverty‐related issues. However, there … subsequent use in poverty focused models. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap by empirically estimating best‐fit income … distribution functions for different household income groups and computing poverty and inequality indices for Sri Lanka. Design …
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Zusammenfassung Prominente Mikrodatenbasis für die Analyse von Einkommen und ihrer Verteilung ist die Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS). Allerdings sind hohe Einkommen über der „Abschneidegrenze" von 35 000 DM Haushaltsnettoeinkommen pro Monat nicht vorhanden. In dieser Studie wird...
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Transportation is an important source of carbon emissions. Since the level of urban traffic motorization enhanced quickly, the problem of carbon emissions derived from transportation has become a significant concern in recent years. It has become a key issue to study how to effectively reduce...
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Abstract To increase the power of the VaR tests, it has been recently proposed to extend the duration-based test class with the geometric-VaR and Gini-coefficient-based tests. These tests, though exhibiting outstanding power properties, have not gained recognition in the industry. A potential...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the long‐run relationship between economic growth and income inequality in China during the pre‐reform (1952‐1978) and post‐reform (1979‐2007) periods, this will be done via cointegration analysis. Design/methodology/approach – The...
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within‐inequality component of the education Gini. The paper also finds a positive correlation between poverty incidence and … education inequality. Research limitations/implications – The research finds a positive correlation between poverty incidence … between poverty incidence and education inequality implies the need to create greater equity in educational opportunities …
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