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Reducing poverty and social disparities in Lithuania

Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki - 2020

Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across population groups with the elderly, people with...

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Relationship between the Rise of Financial Micro Credits and Relief of Poverty in Latin America

Perossa, Mario - 2015

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between growth of micro credits for production as a tool of social inclusion of vulnerable people and the relationship with the decreased rates of poverty and indigence in Latin America countries for the period 2008-2011. The work...

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Relación Entre El Auge De Los Microcréditos Financieros Y El Alivio De La Pobreza En El Escenario Latinoamericano (Relationship between the Rise of Micro Credit and Financial Relie...

Perossa, Mario - 2014

Spanish Abstract: El propósito de este trabajo es analizar la relación existente entre el crecimiento de los microcréditos para la producción como herramienta de inclusión social de sectores desprotegidos y la relación existente con la disminución de los índices de indigencia y pobreza...

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Globalization and the role of public transfers in redistributing income in Latin America and the Caribbean

Skoufias, Emmanuel (contributor); Lindert, Kathy (contributor) - 2009

This paper focuses on measuring the extent to which publicly subsidized transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean redistribute income. The redistributive power of 56 transfers in eight countries is measured by their simulated impacts on poverty and inequality, and by their distributional...

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Can we predict vulnerability to poverty?

Zhang, Yuan; Wan, Guanghua - 2008

There are alternative definitions of vulnerability to poverty. Most researchers prefer to define vulnerability as the … panel data from rural China, this paper attempt to assess the extent to which we can measure vulnerability to poverty. The … assessment is based on comparisons between predicted vulnerability and actually observed poverty. We find that the precision of …

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Between a risk society and a welfare state : social risk resilience and vulnerability to poverty in Lithuania

Navicke, Jekaterina - 2014

substantially different levels of vulnerability to poverty among population groups facing different risks. In the context of the …

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Lithuanian pension system : alternatives and proposals for the future ; a summary report by The Phare Study Group

Lassila, Lukka; Lazutka, Romas; Morkuniene, Audrone; … - 2000

The study identifies three groups of problems in the Lithuanian pension environment: fiscal problems, poverty of retired people, and problems related to working and saving incentives. The future of the current pension system is suspect, as the population share of the elderly is increasing and...

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