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Poverty Removal Strategies and Tools – The Case of Indian Subcontinent

Jain, Trilok Kumar - 2019

India, the author mentions SHG and women empowerment as tools for poverty removal. The author also mentions about financial …

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Value-added disaggregated social accounting matrix for the Indian economy of the year 2007-2008

Pal, Barun Deb; Bandarlage, Jayatilleke S. - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 6 (2017) 14, pp. 1-20

India is pioneer in constructing the social account matrices for its economy for various years, but limited efforts … have been made to construct a SAM for India with detailed description about types labour input employed in various economic … constructed a 78-sector SAM for India which takes into account 48 types of labour input for economic activities and 80 types of …

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The regional distribution of income and wages : causes and consequences

Immel, Lea - 2021

Lea Immel prepared this study while she was working at the Research Group Taxation and Fiscal Policy at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...

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Education for the Poor

Abramishvili, Zurab; Lanchava, Lasha - 2015

This paper investigates the impact on university enrollment of an unconditional cash transfer in Georgia, designed to help households living below the subsistence level. The program, introduced in 2005, selects recipients based upon a quantitative poverty threshold, which gives us the ability to...

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Poverty and the Social Exclusion in Compliance with the 2020 EU Strategy

Bentoiu, Claudia; Athu, Cristina; Predonu, Andreea-Monica - 2014

Presently, people in poor areas suffer from a lack of integration. For this reason, it is of major importance for the European Union to promote social inclusion. This work represents a comprehensive presentation of the current situation of poverty and social exclusion in the European Union as a...

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National System of Researchers – Conacyt and the Fight Against Poverty in Mexico : Winds of Change and Generational

Medel-Ramírez, Carlos; Medel-Lopez, Hilario - 2019

Since the creation of the National System of Researchers (SNI) in 1984, research and technological development recognizes the work of researchers adhering to the SNI, by granting an economic stimulus, gradual and correlated to the level of importance of their productivity and scientific...

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Dreaming of a brighter future? : the impact of economic vulnerability on university aspirations

Watson, Barry; Kong, Nancy; Phipps, Shelley A. - 2022

We examine whether there is an inequality of opportunity to achieve higher education, partially explained by aspirations for youth age 12-15 in economically vulnerable households. Using a unique Canadian dataset (2002-2008), we find that poverty is associated with reduced university aspirations...

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The role of poverty and community norms in child labor and schooling decisions

Strulik, Holger - 2008

Household poverty is a powerful motive for child labor and working frequently comes at the expense of schooling for children. Accounting for these natural links we investigate whether and when there is an additional role for community norms and how the social evaluation of schooling evolves over...

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Roma children in the transformational recession - Widening ethnic schooling gap and Roma poverty in post-communist Hungary

Kertesi, Gábor; Kézdi, Gábor - 2005

The Roma or "Gypsies" are Europe's largest and poorest ethnic minority. Nearly 80 per cent of them live in the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The Roma - Non-Roma educational gap, always substantial but slowly closing in the communist years, widened again after the...

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Vote-Buying and Growth

Gersbach, Hans; Mühe, Felix - 2008

Vote-buying is widely used by parties in developing countries to influence the outcome of elections. We examine the impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show that vote-buying contributes to the persistence of poverty...

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