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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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‐depth interviews took place with companies that had succeeded in serving customers living in poverty. Companies were identified from …
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Purpose – This paper aims to examine the impact of the components of human capital on the extent of poverty and income … developing economies, it is found that the fraction of the population below the poverty line is linearly dependent upon gender … alleviate poverty and improve the distribution of income. Originality/value – This paper provides useful information on the …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the determinants of rural and national poverty, of income … national rural poverty line in a developing country is dependent upon the logarithm of per capita purchasing power parity gross …
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Purpose The mobilising domestic resources, in particular, taxation, is key to unlocking the resources required for public investment in infrastructure, growth and sustainable finance. This study aims to share the perception that the tax arrangements of states and the transnational corporations...
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paper finds that accounting research in LDCs needs to address issues of poverty reduction, corruption, community involvement …
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' (CBEs') impacts on poverty reduction at the household level in northern Thailand, in the context of the UN Millennium … Development Goals. The focus is on the use of principal component analysis to develop a context‐specific definition of poverty … projects and poverty measurement have been integrated into a single poverty impact assessment framework in relation to CBEs …
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This paper empirically analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in developing countries. Using data from a sample of … poverty in rural areas. As the extent of rural poverty is reduced, an added benefit is the deceleration of the rural …
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When the labor supply schedule is bending forward at low wage levels, the average cost curve of firms does the same. This leads to the possibility of multiple equilibria, in particular for monopolists, thereby opening a broader range of options and keeping non‐profitable firms in business....
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to analyse the cross‐country variation in the growth elasticity of poverty across a … variables that may explain the cross‐country variation in the growth elasticity of poverty, the paper sets up a theoretical … the growth elasticity of poverty. Practical implications – Countries that reduce regulatory burdens, improve literacy …
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