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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 goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how … both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights. The analysis employs data for 125 … equality and poverty reduction. The interaction of human rights with official development assistance and trade flows shows that …
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The study examined the impact of globalization on poverty rate with evidence from middle-income country. It focused on … globalization had negative and significant impact on poverty rate in Nigeria. Therefore, the conclusion was made that globalization … had contributed significantly in reducing poverty rate in Nigeria. The study recommended the need for the government to …
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the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of … just 12 per cent, this would have been sufficient to end $2 poverty today. Persistence of global poverty, it seems, is not …
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consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
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consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
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Global GDP is more than 100 trillion dollars, yet 10% of the world's population still live in extreme poverty on less … than $1.90 per day. No one should have to live like that: alleviating poverty is a minimal moral obligation implied by … world to each poor person would eliminate extreme poverty directly and at negligible cost. It is the least we should do …
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dollars per day. Previous research suggests that globalization stimulates poverty reduction, but does not investigate what … to institutional quality in reducing poverty. We find that the poverty-reducing effect of globalization is stronger when … institutions are weak. In particular, increasing social globalization reduces poverty more when corruption is high and democratic …
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This paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19's impact on global poverty in the light of the IMF's April … recorded over the last decade in terms of poverty reduction. Our baseline case suggests that globally the number of people … Development. The fallout from the pandemic will also exacerbate the geographic concentration of poverty, as exemplified by the …
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This paper makes new estimates of the cost of ending poverty and the global distribution of both the cost and poverty … itself. First, the paper discusses definitions of 'ending' poverty, arguing that there is an overemphasis (e.g. SDG 1) on the … extreme poverty line which is insufficient for multiple reasons. Second, we turn to the question of the location of global …
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