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Assessing Role of MGNREGA Towards Millennium Development Goals

Jariwala, Vijay - 2017

The United Nation's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) outline a set of eight development goals, 18 targets and 48 … deadline set at 2015, the MDGs seek to ensure a time-bound accelerated pace of development in identified areas of immediate … development outcomes linked to the MDGs. MGNEGA is India's policy and programme commitment to achieve Millennium Development Goals …

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Social institutions and gender inequality in fragile states : are they relevant for the post-MDG debate?

Branisa Caballero, Boris Sergio; Cardona, Carolina - 2015 - This version: January, 2015

We focus on an issue that appears particularly relevant for fragile states and which has received little attention: social institutions related to gender inequality, defined as societal practices and legal norms that frame gender roles and the distribution of power between men and women in the...

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Poverty and Development of Human Capital in Sudan

Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2011

Catastrophes in Sudan are of many dimensions. Food security is a chronic and intrinsic problem in Sub Saharan Africa which is a fact recognized by the international society. Political instability, civil wars and finally recent secession of its Southern part is another fact which may be taken as...

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Sustainable development : is this paradigm the remedy of all challenges? : does its goals capture the essence of real development and sustainability? : with reference to discourses...

Bhandari, Medani P. - In: SocioEconomic challenges : SEC 3 (2019) 4, pp. 97-128

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Will GDP growth increase happiness in developing countries?

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2011

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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Inclusive Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa : Exploring the Interaction Between ICT Diffusion and Financial Development

Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Osei, Dennis Boahene; Paul … - 2022

Despite the momentous rise in ICT diffusion, and financial development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), their plausible joint effect on inclusive growth have not been explored, leaving a lacuna in the literature. This study, therefore, examines the direct and indirect effects of ICT diffusion on...

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Miserly developments

Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove - 2008

In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz curve, but can also be seen as a measure of polarization...

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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?

Sumner, Andrew - 2013

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary threshold in per capita income but it does matter...

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The poor, the prosperous and the 'inbetweeners' : a fresh perspective on global society, inequality and growth

Edward, Peter; Sumner, Andrew - 2014

What has happened to inequality between and within countries since 1990? In this paper we explore who have been the winners and losers from global growth since 1990. We find that falls in total global inequality in the last 30 years are predominantly attributable to rising prosperity in China....

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Multidimensional Inequality and Human Development

Seth, Suman - 2018

The measurement of inequality from a human development perspective is fundamental. We start this paper by briefly introducing the human development approach and its main conceptual basis: the capability approach. We note that inequality should preferably be assessed in the space of functionings,...

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