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the multidimensional nature of poverty and how to measure it, then identifies aggregate indicators of the performance of …Ownership is the essence of economic citizenship. Beyond actual possession, a sense of personal welfare and … Indian states and the overall achievements and failings of India in terms of poverty alleviation. In the second half, the …
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Assessing whether distributional changes are pro-poor has become increasingly widespread in academic and policy circles. Starting from relatively general ethical axioms, this paper proposes simple graphical methods to test whether distributional changes are indeed pro-poor. Pro-poor standards...
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social development strategies affirmed at Rio 20 combine a green economy for inclusive growth and poverty elimination by …This case study traces the evolution of poverty in Mongolia, a country currently developing a pluralist approach to … poverty alleviation. Mongolia is unique because it transformed from nomadic pastoralism to Soviet socialism without a natural …
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Annual income data may provide a misleading indicator of enduring income inequality in societies where there is considerable year-to-year income mobility. Using two rounds of data on households, the paper measures income mobility in the People's Republic of China (PRC) between the early 1990s...
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to the development of middle-income countries. This paper by using data set consists of 12 Asia and Pacific middle … remittance in earlier stages of development to more FDI when the country prepares the requirements for absorbing the foreign …
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Many studies on growth impact on poverty reduction have been conducted in Indonesia using various economic sectors and … conducted using spatial analysis method to measure the impact of districts growth on poverty reduction in East Java. The … estimation of growth elasticity of poverty is based on Ravallion's model (2001) by considering the presence of growth and poverty …
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Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … validation tests, is superior to proxying welfare with asset ownership in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on …
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presented. We distinguish between measures based on a general class of pro-poor indices and a dominance-based techniques. In the …
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paper is to deliver a fresh assessment of the evolution of inequality and poverty across OECD countries over the last … explores whether contracting inequalities coexist with increasing poverty. The paper adds to previous studies by introducing …
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This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … Brazilian National Household Survey covering the period 1995-2004. -- inequality ; poverty ; growth ; pro-poor growth ; labour …
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