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This course treats public-sector policies, programs, and projects that attempt to reduce poverty and unemployment in … these approaches to the broader literature on poverty reduction, economic development, politics, and the reform of …
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Wirtschaftswachstum, Arbeitsplätzen und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit auf den Weltmärkten. Ziel der Lissabon-Strategie, eines wichtigen …
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The paper discusses the meaning and measurement of pro-poor growth and also reviews evidence of pro-poor growth (or the lack of it) in a large cross-section of countries and time periods. The emerging story is that many episodes of growth are not pro-poor and also that although economic reforms...
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The history of development shows convincingly that no country has substantially reduced poverty without massively … create income for the poor; they are resources for poverty reduction. With price adjustments, it becomes possible for those … who live below the poverty line, nominally less than $1 a day, to afford the products andservices and therefore mitigating …
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for poverty reduction. We also identify some conditions of the labor market which are associated with employment intensive … matter for poverty reduction, the sectoral pattern of employment growth and productivity growth is important. While … employment intensive growth in the secondary sector appears to be associated with decreases in poverty, employment intensive …
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literature on poverty, economic development, and reform of government, and to types of projects, tasks, and environments that are …, programs, and projects that attempt to reduce poverty and unemployment in developing countries, mainly through directly income …
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high population growth. According to the vicious circle theory, natural resource scarcity coupled with poverty leads to … poverty lead to increases in fertility for two of the three countries examined. The coefficients of natural resource scarcity … environment but also an important tool if reduced population growth is an objective. Third, reducing poverty is an important …
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earnings failed to pull them and their families out of poverty. Assistance in the form of childcare, transportation, medical …
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In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually focused solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line …
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Many products consumed on college campuses such as coffee and chocolate come from developing countries where producers are often paid insufficiently and exploited. Fair Trade certification of products guarantees producers a fair price and other social benefits. The objective of my CE/T project...
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