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We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … remained incomplete and was unevenly spread over the population even 22 months after the start of the pandemic. Poverty more … than doubled during the lockdown and even after almost two years was slightly higher than before the pandemic. Inequality …
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poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this …
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growth and changes in global income inequality and poverty. The authors find that rapid growth in China (despite a downward … inequality. The impact of these twocountries is similarly critical with respect to global poverty reduction. … persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a …
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growth and changes in global income inequality and poverty. The authors find that rapid growth in China (despite a downward … inequality. The impact of these two countries is similarly critical with respect to global poverty reduction … persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a …
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growth and changes in global income inequality and poverty. The authors find that rapid growth in China (despite a downward … inequality. The impact of these twocountries is similarly critical with respect to global poverty reduction. … persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001728849
Nexus between income inequality and technology capture is explored in a global CGE model to explore the ricochet effect … subsequently, leads to decline in income inequality. Dynamism of Southern Engines of Growth – India and China – caused them to …. This accrual of benefits could lead to sustained productivity growth and consequential relief of incidence of poverty in …
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Studies of the spatial dimensions of inequality in developing countries are mostly restricted to states, provinces, or … procedure to calculate inequality between and within smaller spatial units in the context of India, taking advantage of census … (spatial) inequality between villages and blocks and to derive (local) inequality within these spatial units. We find that the …
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Community based health insurance (CBHI) is more suited than alternate arrangements to providing health insurance to the low-income people living in developing countries. The universal health insurance scheme, launched recently by the Prime Minister of India, is only one of the forms that CBHI...
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the multidimensional nature of poverty and how to measure it, then identifies aggregate indicators of the performance of … Indian states and the overall achievements and failings of India in terms of poverty alleviation. In the second half, the … article identifies what seems to be the lack of a ‘politics of poverty' in India and the various cultural, historical …
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