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Population management, RH law, and inclusivity

Pernia, Ernesto M. - 2014

Taking off from the self-evident fact that the population variable centrally figures in both labor and product markets …, this paper argues that the growth rate of population, its age structure and spatial distribution should be key … considerations in a country’s development strategy to promote rapid and sustained economic growth, full employment, poverty reduction …

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Time Poverty : Conceptualization, Gender Differences, and Policy Implications

Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen - 2022

[Individuals with heavy paid and unpaid work burdens may experience time deprivations that restrict their well-being and put them at risk of becoming or remaining income poor. Because unpaid work outside of the market is not captured in most large survey-based datasets, time poverty is rarely...

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Income Inequality During China's Economic Transition

Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John; Wang, Sangui - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2005

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of summarizing several “first-order” empirical patterns...

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Do middle classes bring about institutional reforms?

Loayza, Norman; Rigolini, Jamele; Llorente, Gonzalo - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 3, pp. 440-444

We reexamine the association between poverty, the middle class, and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditure. When the size of the middle class increases (measured as the proportion of...

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Micro-credit, risk coping and the incidence of rural-to-urban migration

Ahsan, Quamrul - 2005

The focus of this paper is on the rural poor of south Asia and their struggle to cope with the seasonal risk of unemployment and the ensuing income risks. In the absence of formal credit or insurance markets the rural poor typically resort to, among other options, the following informal...

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