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This paper aims to depict the post-Second World War poverty and inequality trends in Asia, its sub-regions, and … inequality in Asia. Analytical results confirm significant reductions in poverty across the board due to fast growth, although … expected to eradicate poverty but likely to continue facing high inequality, particularly as major technology breakthroughs …
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This paper re-examines the relationship between FDI inflows and welfare (or poverty reduction) in Africa. Using FDI net inflows per capita and the UNDP's HDI as the principal variables, our analyses confirm the positive and strongly significant relationship between FDI net inflows and poverty...
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Within the present paper, some of the most important representative factors for the standard of living of the population in the south-eastern region of our country will be analyzed. It is also desired to present an overview of the current situation regarding the labor market in the territory of...
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This study estimates the weather sensitivity of rice yield in India, using disaggregated (district) level information on rice and high resolution daily weather data over the period 1969-2007. Compared to existing India specific studies on rice which consider only the effects of nighttime...
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The United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) is arguably the most widely used alternative to gross domestic product for measuring national development. This is in large part due to its multidimensional nature, as it incorporates not only income, but also education and health. However, the...
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Health poverty - or poor health - could probably have similar determinants as income poverty. However, neither the determinants nor their marginal effects are likely to be identical. Given this difference and the limited assessment of health poverty among adult women in India, this study tries...
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inequality to poverty, we confirm that the fortunes of rural America are far from monolithic. We then show particularly harmful … contribution of community change to social and spatial inequality …
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COVID-19 has been a tragedy for California. More than 4 million Californians have contracted the disease, and over 64,000 have died from it. And beyond the cost of illness and death, the pandemic and the state’s actions to contain it have devastated California’s economy. Low-income and...
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The purpose of this study is to examine the evolution and the determining factors of the poverty in Cartagena during the period 2002-2005. We used a probabilistic model (probit) to identify the individual characteristics that explain the incidence of the poverty in this city, the main Colombian...
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desigualdad a escala global, que las dos grandes crisis de este siglo amenazan con revertir. Dadas sus responsabilidades y el … hacer frente a la desigualdad y a la pobreza en el mundo. El relato histórico de la transformación de las políticas del … in recent decades in the fight against poverty and the reduction of inequality on a global scale, which this century …
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