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Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of …
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The concept of poverty is discussed using qualitative and quantitative measures as an indicator for social deprivation …. Poverty can be absolute, relative, income-based, consumption-based, or entitlement-based. The variation in the concept of … poverty reveals its dimensionality. However, when closely examined, these dimensions are seen to be conceptually interrelated …
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in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … each of these areas, as well as an integrated discussion of empirical choices made in the measurement of poverty, overall …
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In developing countries, economic inequality is attracting considerable attention. Many factors including financial exclusion are key in explaining income gap in developing countries. This paper examines the effect of access to financial services through digital technologies on income...
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poverty and wellbeing. This framing is reflective of Brazil's national narrative on race relations and the idea that class and … employment status have been the most salient barriers to social welfare protections. Brazil's widely well-regarded anti-poverty … systems offers important lessons on how poverty relief can further human development and enhance agency. Future reformers can …
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How should relative poverty be defined and measured in a European Union where there are substantial variations in … suggests that Europe-wide comparisons are more important to the perception of poverty than the convention of national relative … poverty lines would have led us to expect. Even relative poverty is more prevalent in the new low-income (eastern) countries …
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poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …-monetary poverty have gradually improved over the past 20 years but significant differences across the country remain. …
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This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … poverty across countries and regions, an assessment of trends in these variables since the early 1980s, and a general … discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the …
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This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that determine inequality change, focusing on...
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, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions … can be drawn from. First, urbanization has a significant effect on reducing both poverty of rural residents and poverty of …
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