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Does Foreign Direct Investment Reduce Poverty in Africa and are there Regional Differences?
Gohou, Gaston - 2015
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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Poverty and inequality in Asia : 1965-2014
Wan, Guanghua; Wang, Chen - 2018
This paper aims to depict the post-Second World War poverty and inequality trends in Asia, its sub-regions, and individual economies. Efforts are made to explain these trends and explore the interrelationship between growth, poverty, and inequality in Asia. Analytical results confirm significant...
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Determinant factors of the living level in rural communities in the Southeast region
Pop, Ruxandra Eugenia - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 285-291). 2019
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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Weather Sensitivity of Rice Yield: Evidence from India
Pattanayak, Anubhab; Kumar, K. S. Kavi - Madras School of Economics - 2013
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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Global High-Resolution Estimates of the United Nations Human Development Index Using Satellite Imagery and Machine-learning
Sherman, Luke; Proctor, Jonathan; Druckenmiller, Hannah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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 and Vulnerability : An Empirical Analysis of Women in Uttar Pradesh, India
Ramachandran, Maithili; Kumar, K.S. Kavi; Viswanathan, … - 2006
poverty among adult women in India, this study tries to analyze both the current health status, and the vulnerability to poor … urban areas of the state, vulnerability rates exceed the prevailing high rates of chronic energy deficiency. Although the … applicability of recent methodological advances in the field of vulnerability research to issues of female health. Hence, the …
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Rising Community Poverty Reduces Social Mobility for Rural Children
Connor, Dylan S.; Uhl, Johannes H.; Xie, Siqiao; … - 2022
Rural America is often portrayed as a distressed and left-behind place, where the outlook for rural children is stagnant. This view of rural hardship is supported by the fact that since 1980, almost one in three rural communities have seen increases in poverty of 50 percent or more. But are such...
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Cato's Project on Poverty and Inequality in California : Final Report
Tanner, Michael - 2022
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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Will Today's Poor be Tomorrow's Poor? Determinants of the Poverty and Magnitude of the Vulnerability in Cartagena De Indias, Colombia
Rueda, Fabio Augusto; Espinosa, Aarón Eduardo - 2009
Caribbean region. We analyze as well the vulnerability, understood like the possibility that the people can have a smaller … other hand, the vulnerability is bigger than the poverty, which represents a latent risk to make worse the condition of life …
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Microfinance and Poverty: Questioning the Conventional Wisdom Title: Microfinanzas y pobreza: ¿Son válidas las ideas preconcebidas?
Gulli, Hege - Inter-American Development Bank
Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that have become the conventional wisdom, although they have not been proven. These assumptions are examined through a review and analysis of theoretical and applied literature on...
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