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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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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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countries. The overriding objective of promoting the globalization of developing countries is to reduce poverty and income … latest wave of globalization has bucked the past trend of increasing poverty and income inequality in developing countries … structural malaise that traps them in a vicious circle of poverty. They advocate the radical reshaping of the international …
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There is no consensus about how globalization –trade and foreign investments – affects poverty reduction. Using … household survey data, this study contributes to the empirical literature on globalization and poverty by analyzing the …, full vertical integration and complete exclusion of smallholder suppliers. We analyze and quantify income and poverty …
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-agricultural income in the reduction of poverty. …
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate theeffect of rainfall and agricultural shocks on consumption growth in Madagascar. We are also interested in the impact of local endowments in infrastructures and social services on consumption growth. To achieve this goal, a micro model of household...
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remaining distortions to worldmerchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing countries … of 15 countries, and ten stand-alone national case studies, all point tolarger reductions in poverty, especially if only …
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the relationship between economic growth and poverty in Alagoas, all data was obtained from Atlas of Human Development for … to combat to the poverty qualitative, in others words, if that growth can be considered pro-poor. For that, we estimate … the elasticity of the poverty with the economic growth for the microregions from Alagoas. Our findings indicate a negative …
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, inequality and poverty, which paves a vista for further academic discourse.Design/methodology/approach – As a meta …, inequality and poverty should be investigated further. Unemployment increases levels of inequality and poverty within society … problem of global unemployment, the corollary of which is endemic inequality and poverty.Practical implications – Increases in …
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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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