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effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6%, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage points … Agatha with respect to the harvest cycle of the main crops. The results are robust to placebo treatments, household migration …, issues of measurement error, and different samples. The negative effects of the storm partly explain the increase in poverty …
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Brazil's recent growth has been intensely pro-poor, and both poverty and inequality have declined significantly in the …
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of Friedrich Nietzsche, that ties poverty and inequality to unethical behavior of the strong toward the weak. The paper … contributes to an understanding of why poverty and inequality have remained entrenched in some societies in spite of repeated …
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effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6%, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage points … Agatha with respect to the harvest cycle of the main crops. The results are robust to placebo treatments, household migration …, issues of measurement error, and different samples. The negative effects of the storm partly explain the increase in poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029124
Pro Poor Growth has become a central concern to achieve sustainable poverty reduction in developing countries. Despite … poor growth, then summarizing the linkages between inequality, poverty, and pro poor growth, before proceeding to analyze …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518190
This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth and subjective well-being. Consistent with the Easterlin paradox, higher income is always...
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This study explores the question of structural change and inclusive development in South Africa and Brazil. Using Census data from the two countries, the analysis combines a household level multidimensional indicator of well-being with the applications of growth incidence curves and a sectoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010465459
Despite starting as one of the poorest countries in the mid-1980s, Vietnam has achieved rapid developmental progress, reaching lower middle-income status in 2010. In line with rapid economic growth, Vietnam has achieved impressive progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during...
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This paper investigates the reasons why inequality, and distribution more generally, have come to the fore in the development discourse at the turn of the century, after a period of relative neglect in the 1980s. The paper considers, in particular the analysis of (a) efficiency and equity, (b)...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework on the relationship between corruption and development. The paper demonstrates how the impact of corruption on economic development (ED) might vary substantially from sustainable development (SD)....
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