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remittances on poverty alleviation using data for 65 low- and- middle-income countries from 2002 to 2016. By using two-stage least …
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Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or display inconsistencies over time in poorer countries. To address these data challenges, we employ survey-to-survey imputation to produce estimates for several poverty indicators...
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This paper examines the role of multinationals and international business in poverty alleviation, based on an analysis of articles in the top journals in business, economics, and policy. We develop a conceptual cross-disciplinary framework that maps and disentangles the impact of different types...
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proponents said that remittances dependence syndrome retards both economic growth and income per capita. Separately, using two … might retard economic growth and income per capita. …
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Throughout the developing world, there is a desperate quest for a way out ofthe financial predicament confronting the rural poor. In most countries of thedeveloping regions, especially South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the ruralpopulation forms the larger proportion of the entire population and...
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Using parametric formulae under lognormality for a broad family of povertymeasures, we show that when inequality measured by the Gini coeffcient isconstant, dening the poverty line as a fraction of a central tendency of theliving standard distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty...
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Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way … of data for more than 80 countries from 1981 to 2005, we find that income instability results in a lower poverty …. -- income instability ; poverty ; inequality ; economic growth ; growth elasticity of poverty ; poverty trap …
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Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey tangible information about poverty. But both ignore...
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Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine eligibility. We apply recent advances in multidimensional measurement analysis to develop a straightforward method for summarizing changes in groups of eligibility (screening)...
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income distributions and national accounts GDP, we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality indices for … 1995, if anything, decreased African income inequality instead of increasing it . And fourth, African poverty reduction is …
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