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the level of household food security among the poor and low income households in Malaysia. This study is based on primary … Pahang, Kelantan, and Terengganu States of Malaysia. The sample was selected from E-Kasih poor household database based on …
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Malaysia. The study area is located in the East Coast Economic Region of the country. It uses primary data collected during the … National Plans regarding food security, socioeconomic development and poverty alleviation. In order to ensure food security in … Malaysia, especial focuses are needed for those who are severely food insecured and those who are food insecured but marginally …
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This paper investigates whether changes in climatic conditions significantly contribute to incidence of poverty in the … Philippines. Due to the lack of sufficient regional estimates of poverty, this study utilized food cpi data to proxy for poverty … level. The relationship between poverty level and food cpi were tested and found to be moving in parallel direction, and …
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eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, with the specific goals of halving the proportions of both undernourished and malnourished … people between 1990 and 2015. The poverty goal was met fully, ahead of schedule, and substantive progress was made toward the … millions of families from the desperate cycle of hunger and poverty also had consequences for the environment. Roughly 72% of …
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, if any, evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of … subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher temperature to increase poverty. This finding is robust to various model ….1 percent increase in the headcount poverty rate, using the US$ 1.90 daily poverty threshold. Regional heterogeneity exists …
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warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies … consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … poverty than transient poverty. The results are robust to different model specifications and measures of chronic poverty and …
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, surprisingly hardly any evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of … subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher temperature to increase poverty. This finding is robust to various model ….1 percent increase in the headcount poverty rate, using the US$ 1.90 daily poverty threshold. Regional heterogeneity exists …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013283993
warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies … consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … poverty than transient poverty. The results are robust to different model specifications and measures of chronic poverty and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014433021
poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … economic growth is crucial for poverty reduction. Higher per capita incomes tend to favour poverty reduction, while higher …
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