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We contribute to the literature on trends in living standards in Tanzania by analysing child welfare using two multi-dimensional approaches, first-order dominance (FOD) and Alkire-Foster (AF). Between 1991/92 and 2010, remarkably similar area rankings emerge that suggest a widening gap between...
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This study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of …
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With rural extreme poverty officially eradicated in 2020, China is to move to measuring relative poverty in urban and … rural areas. Relative poverty describes circumstances in which people cannot afford actively to participate in society and … percent of national median disposable income. While a single poverty threshold symbolises national unity, separate poverty …
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Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …
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poverty, multidimensional poverty index (MPI) and child deprivation index (CDI). The results indicate that BISP cash … households are until facing high rates of poverty as the majority of them have not been transited out of poverty. No sustained …
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Poverty and gender equality are at the heart of the 2030 Agenda and are key strategic areas for Germany's Federal … Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). It has been often argued that poverty is gendered: at the 1995 UN … sound scientific evidence. There are several challenges to examining the relationship between gender and poverty. The main …
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The determination of retirement adequacy is of interest to governments in setting policies related to government transfers, but different measures can result in different outcomes. This paper uses a broad definition of the components that contribute to retirement adequacy and shows that in...
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