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This paper presents empirical results of a wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil … and Chile experienced significant reductions of multidimensional poverty. In contrast, in urban Uruguay there was a small … reduction in multidimensional poverty, while in urban Argentina the estimates did not change significantly. El Salvador, Brazil …
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This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the on-going debate about what international...
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Microcredit can be an effective tool for tackling the global poverty problem. Making microcredit work better for the … economic options of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries within Third World economic and poverty conditions. Governance principles can … for poverty reduction and development. In view of the Philippine government’s limitations, economic and fiscal challenges …
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The health industry in Canada, as well as in other industrial countries, has been in the process of reform for many … varies from country to country. In Canada, with a publicly funded health industry, the main reform method has been …-care managers in British Columbia, a western province of Canada. The study had a two-fold approach; to ascertain how health reform …
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This study analyzes the long-term evolution of the North American pulp and paper industry, and offers a new synthesis of the dynamic forces that spearheaded the expansion and transformation of this large manufacturing industry. The evolution of the North American pulp and paper industry between...
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concerns the summary measurement of the extent of social inequalities in health. Income dynamics and adult mortality: Canada … and the USAChapter 4 examines the effects of income level and income drops on all-cause mortality in Canada and the United … the United States. The effects of income drops differed in Canada and the United States.Income dynamics and adult …
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.S. government in 1973, but does not require adherence to thosestandards. In Canada, the Personal Information Protection and …
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