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Lustig, Nora - 2016

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Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain

Hernández, Adrian; Picos, Fidel; Riscado, Sara - 2020

Minimum income schemes are set to provide citizens with a minimum living standard. In Spain, these schemes consist of a heterogeneous and complex collection of regional benefits designed and implemented by the Autonomous Communities. This generates important regional discrepancies among the...

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Measurement of living standards deprivation in Lahore District, Pakistan (a periodical comparison approach)

Afzal, Mohammad; Nazir, Ahsan - In: Pakistan journal of applied economics : PJAE 31 (2021) 1, pp. 31-45

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The War on Poverty Turns 50 : Are We Winning Yet?

Tanner, Michael - 2015

The War on Poverty is 50 years old. Over that time, federal and state governments have spent more than $19 trillion fighting poverty. But what have we really accomplished?Although far from conclusive, the evidence suggests that we have successfully reduced many of the deprivations of material...

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Short moves and long stays: homeless family responses to exogenous shelter assignments in New York City

Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020

Using an original administrative dataset in the context of a scarcity induced-natural experi-ment in New York City, I find that families placed in shelters in their neighborhoods of origin remain there considerably longer than those assigned to distant shelters. Locally-placed families also...

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Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain

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A Comparative Analysis of Poverty Alleviation Policies and Programs in Latin America and Asia : The Case Study of Elderly People Interventions (2000–2017)

Vasquez, Enrique - 2019

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