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Although science has unlocked the secrets of the human genome, the causes of social and economic development remain …
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Discusses small enterprise development and private sector development as key methods for alleviating poverty. …
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Although science has unlocked the secrets of the human genome, the causes of social and economic development remain …
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; discusses rural development policy alternatives such as agrarian reform, strengthening of rural worker organizations and social …
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productivity trends (1961-1978), relations between agricultural development and industrial development (partic. Small scale …
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poverty and low productivity in Malawi - based on a sample survey in the Lilongwe land development programme, examines land …
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Using parametric formulae under lognormality for a broad family of povertymeasures, we show that when inequality measured by the Gini coeffcient isconstant, dening the poverty line as a fraction of a central tendency of theliving standard distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty...
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Poverty continues to challenge Latin American and Caribbean countries, with approximately one in three people in the region in poverty and one in seven in extreme poverty. This paper provides up-to-date insights through analysis of who the poor are, where they are located, and how they live in...
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Rising inequality and widespread poverty, social unrest and polarization, gender and ethnic disparities, declining social mobility, economic fragility, unbalanced growth due to technology and globalization, and existential danger from climate change are urgent global concerns of our day. These...
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other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisisoften referred to as the Great Recession …
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