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In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses … measure the contributions of different migration streams to overall poverty change. An application to Tanzania shows the new … insights that are provided - in particular on the role of migration to secondary towns in poverty reduction. …
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poverty among mothers after childbirth and divorce/separation. The analysis was carried out for twelve EU countries, which …. Countries with low post-childbirth poverty include those with an explicit pro-natalist orientation and socio-democratic regimes …. High post-childbirth poverty rates are found in pro-traditional and South European conservative countries, and especially …
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those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in …
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Despite rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Chile has remained high and remarkably constant over … inequality in Chile has concentrated on the national and regional levels. The impact of cash subsidies to poor households on … local inequality is thus not well understood. Using poverty-mapping methods to asses this impact, we find heterogeneity in …
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We study the implementation of Bolsa Familia, a program that conditions cash transfers to poor families on children's school attendance. Using unique administrative data, we analyze how beneficiaries respond to the enforcement of conditionality. Making use of random variation in the day on which...
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We study the implementation of Bolsa Familia, a program that conditions cash transfers to poor families on children's school attendance. Using unique administrative data, we analyze how beneficiaries respond to the enforcement of conditionality. Making use of random variation in the day on which...
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We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the … uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic human capabilities for three countries: Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vietnam …. We compute standard errors of the resulting poverty estimates and compare the incidence of poverty across these three …
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many development issues such as poverty reduction and social security, and despite the fact that population ageing will … fiscal burden on Ukraine, it significantly reduced the propensity of falling into poverty for those in retirement. …
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