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addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
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the multidimensional nature of poverty and how to measure it, then identifies aggregate indicators of the performance of …Ownership is the essence of economic citizenship. Beyond actual possession, a sense of personal welfare and … Indian states and the overall achievements and failings of India in terms of poverty alleviation. In the second half, the …
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This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the … poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the … period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are …
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This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …
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, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … in each country, education contributes the most (about 30%) to multidimensional poverty. …In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …
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Does predicted global warming imply more hunger in the future of Latin America? Climate projections prepared by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are briefly presented, along with an analysis of existing estimates of their probable impact on agriculture and food...
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reach a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …
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a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …
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Welfare reform has increased labor force participation among welfare parents. But is work leading to self …-sufficiency or another cycle of defeat for these workers? The answer is that most welfare workers remain trapped in the cage of … poverty.The basic premise of the work-first model that continuing participation in the labor force will lead to economic self …
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poverty using the poverty indices and constructed poverty lines; and development of a Composite Indicator of Multidimensional … is therefore to compute a composite indicator of multidimensional poverty and regional poverty lines to identify the …The identification of the poor and the definition of poverty is rather complex since poverty dimensions are …
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