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remittances on poverty alleviation using data for 65 low- and- middle-income countries from 2002 to 2016. By using two-stage least …
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Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or display inconsistencies over time in poorer countries. To address these data challenges, we employ survey-to-survey imputation to produce estimates for several poverty indicators...
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This paper examines the role of multinationals and international business in poverty alleviation, based on an analysis of articles in the top journals in business, economics, and policy. We develop a conceptual cross-disciplinary framework that maps and disentangles the impact of different types...
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proponents said that remittances dependence syndrome retards both economic growth and income per capita. Separately, using two … might retard economic growth and income per capita. …
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Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way … of data for more than 80 countries from 1981 to 2005, we find that income instability results in a lower poverty …. -- income instability ; poverty ; inequality ; economic growth ; growth elasticity of poverty ; poverty trap …
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Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey tangible information about poverty. But both ignore...
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Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine eligibility. We apply recent advances in multidimensional measurement analysis to develop a straightforward method for summarizing changes in groups of eligibility (screening)...
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income distributions and national accounts GDP, we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality indices for … 1995, if anything, decreased African income inequality instead of increasing it . And fourth, African poverty reduction is …
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This paper investigates inequalities across the major black ethnic groups in South Africa, accounting for 80 per cent of the country's population. We demonstrate that there is an important ethnic gap in the poverty levels of the Xhosa and the Zulu with respect to the Sotho/Tswana. We also show...
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We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID …)) containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the … world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates in PPP units of monthly real consumption and income for every …
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