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Overall, household debt levels have risen sharply over the past decades in EU Member States. While certain levels of … household debts can be beneficial, they can become problematic especially with a sudden, unexpected decrease of incomes or …
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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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household credit, considering that the behaviour of its determinants is exogenous. According to the evidence reported, household …
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There is a considerable literature, albeit inconclusive, on whether workers in the nonprofit sector are paid less than their counterparts in the private and public sectors. For example, a large national study in the U.S. showed positive and negative differentials for some occupations and...
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This article examines the interchangeability of paid and volunteer labor. It reports on estimates and prevalence of such interchangeability through a series of studies of Canadian nonprofits: two national surveys of nonprofit organizations and case studies of two hospitals. The first study found...
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Webcast of "Flexible Work Arrangements and Low-Wage Work," a briefing held on Wednesday, July 8, 2009, and presented by Workplace Flexibility 2010 and the New America Foundation.Panelists presented "the latest research on scheduling challenges faced by low-wage workers, [. . .] common sense...
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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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