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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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In this paper we apply two statistical models to the measurement of polarization to Israeli income data over the past decade in order to empirically detect income classes as sub-populations of incomes concentrated around an optimal number of poles. The statistical models compared are a...
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In this paper we study income polarization by first comparing the efficiency of two statistical models to identify the number of poles in the income distribution empirically. The statistical models used are a multi-resolution analysis (MRA) and a log-normal approach (LNA). We then apply 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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