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In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
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The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in … one set of indicators that capture the extension of lived poverty, that is what percentage of the respondents, experiences … deprivation, but we also develop a series of indicators that capture the severity of lived poverty, that is how frequently …
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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 pace of poverty reduction through growth vs. redistribution is at the heart of current debates on equitable … development. In this paper, we argue that empirical poverty decompositions should build in the inherent boundedness of the poverty … headcount ratio directly. As a solution, we propose a fractional response approach to estimating poverty decompositions, and …
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Correlates of incidence and exit from chronic poverty in rural India / Shashanka Bhide and Aasha Kapur Mehta -- Rural … casual labourers, wages and poverty : 1983 to 1999-2000 / Sheila Bhalla, Anup K. Karan and T. Shobha -- Extreme and chronic … poverty and malnutrition in India / R. Radhakrishna, K. Hanumantha Rao, C. Ravi and B. Sambi Reddy -- Chronic poverty among …
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