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incidence of poverty and inequality), but also the indirect ones of the macroeconomic characteristics of the country. Probit …
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poverty in five Latin American countries. The results suggest that economic downturns have a negative impact on child … mortality, child health, and both overall and child poverty. Child poverty increases at higher rates than overall poverty …
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different types of interventions to cushion its impact. The analysis forecasts that the number of people living in poverty …
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Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and Latin …
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Multiple Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and …
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social programs in virtually all countries, poverty and high inequality remain deeply entrenched. In this paper we ask the … – both in increasing growth and in directly reducing poverty. We define social policy broadly to include economy-wide (“macro …” and employment and other structural) policies that affect poverty and social justice in foreseeable ways, as well as …
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Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and Latin …
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A fundamental question in economics is whether happiness increases pari passu with improvements in material conditions or whether humans grow accustomed to better conditions over time. We rely on a large-scale experiment to examine what kind of impact the provision of housing to extremely poor...
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poverty, income per capita and the human development index have only a significant direct impact on individual happiness …
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The issue of public safety has been under debate in Uruguay and a great part of the public opinion highlights that the situation has worsened. The objective of this study is to verify people’s perception in Uruguay and discuss the responses in comparison with others Latin American countries....
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