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equality. Specifically, we investigate the relationships between three dimensions of welfare transfers - transfer share (the … average share of household income from welfare transfers), low-income targeting, and universalism - and poverty and …
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The government is rightly concerned with employment generation to make growth inclusive. The use of the open unemployment rate to measure its success, however, is misplaced. In a developing country with a large informal sector and in the absence of unemployment insurance, open unemployment is...
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We contribute to the literature on trends in living standards in Tanzania by analysing child welfare using two multi … in the middle. The methodologies also complement each other by providing upper and lower bounds on underlying welfare …
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empowerment programs and mustahiq’s (zakat recipient) welfare. This quantitative study employs Partial Least Square Structural …. Zakat empowerment positively affects mustahiq’s welfare. This indicates that the empowerment program successfully increases … assistantship and mustahiq welfare also shows a positive and significant effect. Further, macroeconomic indicators consisting of …
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Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create disincentives to work. While there is substantial evidence showing limited effects of these programs on overall labor supply, the jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal...
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