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Is China-Africa economic relation instrumental for capital flight and poverty reduction in FZ? Does it matter in the improvement of external debt's impact on GDP per capita and capital flight reduction in particular? This paper extends and assesses the Asongu and Aminkeng (2013) conclusions...
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policy coherence is as important as ODA to ending global poverty. …
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Poor persons in poor countries are greatly exposed to the risk of adverse shocks, many of international origin, which can create long-lasting damage to individual well-being. There is a strong moral and prudential case for taking measures which reduce the extent to which such shocks arise and...
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of articles in the top journals in business, economics, and policy. We develop a conceptual cross-disciplinary framework … poverty is still unclear overall, we contribute to research and policy debates by identifying key insights from and main gaps …
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low-wage growth path and increase the overall economic output of the region …
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The fast food industry has a larger share of its workers in poverty than any other industry. The combination of low wages, part-time work and employee churn undercut workers’ ability to pay their rent.Hungry Cooks presents findings showing that fast food workers make up 11 percent of all...
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The concept of poverty needs a clear and practical definition. This article examines the basic needs approach as well as the capability approach and compares their key characteristics. They have diverse philosophical underpinnings and thus results in different definition. The former one focuses...
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looked mainly at the relationship between aid and national aggregates, per capita GDP growth in particular. A specific …This paper econometrically examines the impact of aid on the well-being of population sub-groups within 48 developing … countries. This is a radical departure from previous empirical research of aid effectiveness at the country level, which has …
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policy and regulations. Finally, the paper reflects on what continuing policy efforts need to be considered by donors and …
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caution is needed in directing overseas development aid (ODA) towards climate change mitigation and adaptation due to the … links between various macroeconomic variables related to growth and poverty reduction …
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