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In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of households in rural … China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and … that this effect is stronger for poorer households within villages. Household income per capita and non-durable consumption …
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In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of households in rural … China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and … that this effect is stronger for poorer households within villages. Household income per capita and non-durable consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010675506
Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further … highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad overview of the pros and cons of poverty … review two common uses of poverty imputation methods that aim at tracking poverty over time and estimating poverty dynamics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603834
Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further … highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide abroad overview of the pros and cons of poverty … review two common uses of poverty imputation methods that aim at tracking poverty over time and estimating poverty dynamics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597705
show that expected asset-poverty is a reliable proxy for expected consumption-poverty. Applying the methodology to nine …This paper presents a methodology to measure vulnerability to asset-poverty. Using repeated cross-section data, age … distribution of expected future asset-wealth, as they also generally do over the bi-dimensional distribution of present asset-wealth …
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's potentially diminishing effect on poverty. A considerable mismatch between skills and employment was found among Arab academics … Arab population. Based on the Galilee Society's social survey for 2004 Israeli Arab poverty incidence was found to be 52 …% with nearly two thirds in persistent poverty. Among Bedouins in villages unrecognized by the Israeli government it was …
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This paper looks at some of the fundamental ideas in contemporary economics such as the basic economic problem, opportunity cost and allocation a person is expected to encounter when they are first introduced to economic theory. It attempts to explain how the manner in which these concepts are...
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This paper inscribes itself in the logic of debates on the policies of poverty reduction which have been taking place … for a decade now. The author evaluates the influence of social religious capital on the poverty of households in Cameroon … the author makes use of three different models to estimate three indicators - of monetary poverty, of poverty of living …
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This study focuses on growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda. We take a broad perspective, in two respects. First, we …
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over time. In this paper we show that this dynamic element - the risk of falling into (deeper) poverty and the chances of … available National Income Dynamics Study data to provide a thorough and up-to-date analysis of poverty dynamics in South Africa … between 2008 and 2017. This analysis focuses on the correlates of transitions into and out of poverty, and investigates how …
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