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in advancing our current understanding of the relationship between violent conflict and household poverty. Micro … through to household poverty, as well as the potential impact of household poverty on conflict. This framework suggests three …
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scale in household size - a family of six needs three times as much as a family of two. This paper examines the sensitivity … household surveys from 162 countries covering 98 percent of the population estimated to be in extreme poverty in 2017. We … compare current-method estimates with a constant- elasticity scale adjustment that divides total household consumption or …
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scale in household size a family of six needs three times as much as a family of two. This paper examines the sensitivity of … global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative household … current-method estimates with a constant- elasticity scale adjustment that divides total household consumption or income not …
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contribution to world food security in the 21st century is already significant and it is bound to continue to grow because demand … sewage. We scrutinize our vision from four perspectives: (i) the expected demand for aquaculture fish from urban consumers … chicken production. Based on trends in the growth of urban populations world-wide and trends in demand for fish for food we …
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This paper explores changes in the level and composition of per capita food consumption across the world; it does not discuss intra-country inequalities in food access, nor the prevalence of hunger resulting from those inequalities. The world's food output has more than trebled since 1961 whilst...
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(like Shanghai in China or the Nile delta in Egypt), the regression in countries suffering from demographic decline and a …
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The effects of inequality on economic growth depend on several factors. On one hand, they depend on the time horizon considered, on the initial level of income and on its initial distribution. But, on the other hand, as growth and inequality are also uneven across space, it also seems relevant...
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