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implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the …
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This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. (2012). It examines five dimensions of deprivation: education, water, sanitation, shelter, and energy-using comparable datasets, the Nigeria Demographic...
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At the end of the 1980s, Côte d'Ivoire entered a deep macroeconomic crisis that put an end to the often-praised 'Ivorian miracle'. After the death of the founding father Houphouet- Boigny, unrestrained political competition added to bad economic conditions and led to the nightmare of civil war....
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This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … distributional characteristics. Using years of life as a welfare metric yields a single parameter that captures the underlying trade …-off between lives and livelihoods: how many PYs have the same welfare cost as one LY. Taking an agnostic view of this parameter …
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The financial sector in rural areas, where most of the poor people in sub-Saharan Africa are found, has transformed massively in recent times, notably through the increased penetration of several types of rural financial intermediaries in addition to rural and community banks and microfinance...
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