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ication of a poverty line or particular poverty measures . The paper introduces three alternative principles of targeting …
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Global GDP is more than 100 trillion dollars, yet 10% of the world's population still live in extreme poverty on less … than $1.90 per day. No one should have to live like that: alleviating poverty is a minimal moral obligation implied by … world to each poor person would eliminate extreme poverty directly and at negligible cost. It is the least we should do …
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Wage Inequality -- Economic Transformation and the Gender Earnings Gap in Urban China -- The Geography of Poverty … Democracy -- Part II (In)decent Work -- Decent Work for Change -- Minimum Wages and Poverty with Income-Sharing -- What Is … Case for Developing Economies -- Illusions and Disillusions with Poverty Reduction Strategies: Growth, Crisis and the MDGs …
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alleviate even the most extremes of poverty. In this sense, the pandemic is yet another reminder for how important investments …
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This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a two-period panel of 66 Territorial...
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In this paper, we examine the effect of IMF (imposed) programs on countries income inequality for the period 1963-2015. To deal with selection bias, we use a potential outcomes framework, which does not rely on the selection of matching variables and has the further advantage of uncovering the...
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The UNDP has set Millennium Goals which include the halving of world poverty by 2015. This can be viewed in the light … half the number of people living in abject poverty. We examine some existing poverty reduction solutions which are being …
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