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This paper argues that the link between poverty and drug-related crime might be spurious. We take an empirical approach … variables in order to estimate the contribution of poverty to crime. Secondly, data is analysed using an ARDL ECM. The quarterly … sample data for our estimation is for the period 1995-2016. We found a strong association between crime and poverty both in …
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climate change on achieving pro-poor economic growth in Africa. Predicated on poverty-inequality-climate analysis, the …
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Both wages and needs-adjusted household income increased by ten percent between 2013 and 2018, benefiting all income groups. Wage inequality has been declining for many years and has now again reached the level of the early 2000s. At the same time, the low-wage sector shrank by two percentage...
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societal income inequality, poverty, polarization and societal segmentation are examined. What emerges for the Eurozone as an …
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poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor … the measurement assumptions. With only a modest allowance for leisure as a basic need, the effort-adjusted poverty rate in …
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This paper empirically examines the quantitative relationship between financial inclusion and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa using a panel of 46 countries for the period 2004–2018. The evidence suggests that usage of financial services, among other covariates, has a quantifiable and...
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one following the COVID-19 pandemic, on income inequality and the risk of poverty in Greece. To this end, we also … inequality and relative poverty have deteriorated during the years of crises, implying that the country's response to economic … distribution, we show that income inequality and the risk of poverty increase with growth, implying that the benefits of growth …
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The number of employed persons in Germany has grown by over five million since 2000, in part due to an increase in immigration. This development is reflected in private household income, which has increased by 12 percent over the same period. Since 2013, all income groups have been benefiting...
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remained high. These are the findings of the present study based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. The risk-of-poverty … rate was 16.8 percent in 2015, in comparison to around 11 percent in the mid-1990s. The risk-of-poverty rate among the … migration background - those who were born in a foreign country and then migrated to Germany. The increase in the risk-of-poverty …
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