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Starting from the recent UNICEF publications on child poverty in the developed countries, which received a wide audience in the political and scientific world, in this paper we further analyze the UNICEF study data base and present three composite indices that are multidimensional and...
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We leverage survey data from emerging and developing Asia to highlight different aspects of household vulnerability to income shocks arising from the Covid-19 pandemic: occupation in Cambodia, self-insurance mechanisms in Nepal, and financial leverage in Vietnam. Occupation and ex-ante income...
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In this study, we explore the relationship between the debt service ratio (DSR) and individual borrowers' ability to withstand shocks in Malaysia. Using a micro-level dataset that matches borrowers' debt and income, we quantify the financial resilience of individual borrowers and subsequently...
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‘Globalization’ implies change, and uncertainty over future change may affect household welfare. We use data on Lorenz curves over the last fifty years for a sample of 53 (mostly developing) countries. Treating each country-quintile-year as an observation, we first account for variation in...
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This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the development in income distribution and outlines its major long-term trends of 23 countries worldwide. These countries are clustered in four groups covering the core advanced, the Nordic, the emerging, and the least developed economies of the...
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Chapter 1: General Introduction -- Chapter 2: Entrepreneurial Activity and Economic Growth: A Literature Review -- Chapter 3: A Review of Economic Development Thinking and the Role of Innovative Entrepreneurship: Past, Present, and Future -- Chapter 4: Why Do Some Nations Succeed While Others...
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