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In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
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The long-standing tradition of empirical studies investigating the nexus between economic growth and poverty has … concentrated on monetary poverty. This paper engages in the little-explored debate on the relationship between growth and … multidimensional poverty, by employing two novel, individual-based multidimensional poverty indices: the G-CSPI and G-M0. It relies on …
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The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …
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variable (IAV) to establish the effects of foreign aid on economic growth or the reduction of poverty. The common assumption in …
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the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of … just 12 per cent, this would have been sufficient to end $2 poverty today. Persistence of global poverty, it seems, is not …
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"One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of standard data sources, the present study examines luminosity (measures of nighttime lights) as a proxy for standard...
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