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This paper aims to depict the post-Second World War poverty and inequality trends in Asia, its sub-regions, and … individual economies. Efforts are made to explain these trends and explore the interrelationship between growth, poverty, and … inequality in Asia. Analytical results confirm significant reductions in poverty across the board due to fast growth, although …
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of human welfare, particularly poverty and inequality. Combined with major improvements in the coverage and quality of …
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), submitted under the Paris Agreement, will have on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of poverty eradication (SDG1) and … future trends of poverty prevalence and inequality across countries in a reference scenario and under a climate mitigation … contributions, stated in the NDCs, is projected to slow down the effort to reduce poverty by 2030 ( 2% of the population below the …
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). Finally we study the causes of the obtained polarization results in a multinomial logit analysis. -- polarization ; poverty …
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The South Asia region is home to the largest pool of individuals living under the poverty line, coupled with a fast … evaluating access across the region's physical (location), poverty, and income considerations. The paper also analyzes inequality …
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This paper estimates the number of poor in various countries in Asia by applying an "amalgam poverty line", which is a … weighted average of an absolute poverty line (such as $1.25 per day or $1.45 per day) and a reference income (such as the mean … or the median income). The number of poor is computed under various values of the weight applied to the absolute poverty …
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; poverty ; multi-resolution analysis ; income distribution …
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Financial inclusion is a key element of social inclusion, particularly useful in combat-ing poverty and income … investigate the impact of financial inclusion on reducing poverty and income inequality, and the determinants and conditional … robust evidence that financial inclusion significantly reduces poverty rates and income inequality in developing countries …
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's employment share declined, but most new jobs were in services. Concurrently, poverty incidence declined dramatically. Income …. Economic growth combined with structural change contributed to poverty reduction, but the magnitude of this impact depends … heavily on the poverty line used in calculating poverty. The Thai data support the Kuznets hypothesis of an inverted U …
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The Bangladesh economy has undergone significant structural changes over the last four decades. The share of agriculture in GDP has declined, while the significance of industry and service sectors has increased. These structural changes have been associated with persistent challenges such as...
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