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, political explanations that have been proffered for this apparent anomaly. Finally, the impact of democracy on poverty reduction … the interplay between democracy, social opportunity and economic security, drawing upon survey data to explore popular … the multidimensional nature of poverty and how to measure it, then identifies aggregate indicators of the performance of …
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The goal of this research is to explore whether actual lottery revenues are sensitive to scarcity, as measured by intra-monthly variation in financial resources. Exogenous paydays of social security benefits are employed to generate the intra-monthly variation in financial resources. Using two...
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Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …
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The purpose of this research is to examine the poverty phenomenon indicators in Poland through the prism of sustainable … development. The subject of poverty and its consequences is often omitted in the discussion of sustainable development, or … Development Goals (SDGs). The study will cover the problem of poverty in Poland, together with the assessment of the potential of …
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, the concept of resilience proves to be useful and transferable into poverty and social policy research under certain …
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the transparency of social pension allocation were indeed achieved, such that possession of the Below Poverty Line ration …
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This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg … the relative role of income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and direction of change in child poverty … child poverty, changes in child poverty, and the impact of public policy in North America and Europe. -- poverty ; children …
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maqashid al-shariah (the Islamic objectives). Zakat community empowerment is a solution to suppress the poverty rate and … possible for reducing inequality and ending poverty in Indonesia. This study extends the literature by providing a unique …
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The paper documents child poverty levels and trends using both relative ('deep') and absolute ('extreme') measures in … different components of household income and other resources on child deep-poverty rates to examine the role of the market and … poverty reduction. Overall, middle-income nations have witnessed continuous reductions in their extreme child poverty rates …
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Regular annual studies made by the Office of National Statistics in the UK are intended to show how far taxing household incomes and giving benefits in cash and kind to households redistributes income from rich to poor. The first attempt to do this in the UK was made by Tibor Barna for the year...
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