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that people who are vulnerable to fall under the poverty line indulge in criminal activities as a consumption smoothing … towards economic growth, poverty alleviation and crime deterrence concomitantly. The results indicate a positive and … statistically significant impact of poverty, inequitable income growth and low quality of the legal system on incidence of total …
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The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …
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The study investigates whether economic growth in the Balkan countries was pro-poor in the most recent period. We also try to establish to what extent various measures of pro-poorness of economic growth produce consistent and comparable results. Firstly, concepts of pro-poor growth are defined...
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Reducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations … evaluation of the main stylized facts concerning poverty, inequality, and growth. It will uncover existing trends, put …
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. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and …
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social indicators, such as GDP growth, labour market outcomes, and poverty and inequality, for the period since the fall of … productivity. Total FDI has had only limited effects on inequality and poverty, but FDI from Germany and Austria has been found to … reduce both inequality and poverty, likely because they have benefitted mainly lower-income persons. There are differences in …
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Indonesia has a very good record of poverty reduction, having halved its incidence over the past two decades …. Nevertheless, almost 30 million people still live below the national poverty line, mostly in rural areas and in certain provinces …. In order to make further progress in lifting these people out of poverty and economic vulnerability, policy needs to …
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implements a new decomposition on the China Health and Nutrition Panel Survey (1991-2006) to examine the extent to which changes … in level and distribution of incomes and in income mobility are related to health disparities between rich and poor. We … find that health disparities in China relate to rising income inequality and in particular to the adverse health and income …
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A Proposal considering relating economic Inequality and health outcome Indicators which have ramifications on economic …
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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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