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significant challenges to improve development. There must be an active macroeconomic policy focused on the real economy. Chile …
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Economic volatility remains a fact of life in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Household-level shocks create large consumption fluctuations, raising the incidence of poverty. Drawing on micro-level data from South Africa and Tanzania, we examine the vulnerability to shocks across household types (e.g....
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Ownership is the essence of economic citizenship. Beyond actual possession, a sense of personal welfare and proprietorship, or at least the hope of achieving them, constitute a necessary and important complement to being stakeholders in a society. Together with efficacy and legitimacy, these are...
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The main objective of this paper is to show how relevant is the incentive policy to agricultural investments for food poverty reduction towards agricultural households. The data used for this study are from the 1985-1988 CI-LSMS and the 1998 National Statistics Institute's Household Surveys. We...
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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has upended the lives of children and their families as health systems buckle, borders close, and schools and businesses shutter. Also, this is a new virus was unknown before the outbreak in Wuhan, China in December 2019 (WHO, 2019) Furthermore, The...
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A hypothetical European Minimum Wage (MW) set at 60 percent of each country's median wage would reduce in-work poverty but have limited effects on overall poverty, as many poor households do not earn a wage near MW and higher unemployment, higher prices, and a loss of social insurance benefits...
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The international community has become increasingly concerned with sustainable development and particularly with … inequality, as well as growth and climate change mitigation, now haunts intellectuals, forecasters, and politicians. These three … a simultaneous solution of GET. No group of countries can hope to solve each of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG …
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African country to be followed. The present paper introduces an analysis and assessment of measurements for human development …
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Poverty is one of the serious problems of the world. The problem is more severe in Africa. Eritrea is 16 years old young nation got independence from Ethiopia. The economy of the country was quite good during 1993-97. Later, however, Eritrea has been exposed numerous challenges such as drought,...
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