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/actual “poverty tours”, the article argues that while Antigua NGOs develop and host these poverty tours as a means of moving “hearts …
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, income, assets and a much lower level of poverty than those without nonfarm participation. The intensity of nonfarm … implications – The findings suggest that any poverty alleviation policies should aim at improving the access of ethnic minorities …
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inequality and to design effective intervention policies. The purpose of this paper is to focus on poverty reduction and welfare … implication of the empirical findings suggests that Fiji is unlikely to achieve its Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty …
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Purpose – There has been growing interest in recent years in modelling various poverty‐related issues. However, there … subsequent use in poverty focused models. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap by empirically estimating best‐fit income … distribution functions for different household income groups and computing poverty and inequality indices for Sri Lanka. Design …
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Zusammenfassung Prominente Mikrodatenbasis für die Analyse von Einkommen und ihrer Verteilung ist die Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS). Allerdings sind hohe Einkommen über der „Abschneidegrenze" von 35 000 DM Haushaltsnettoeinkommen pro Monat nicht vorhanden. In dieser Studie wird...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the perceptions of professional accountants from three countries from the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in order to evaluate their perceived benefits associated with the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis of the communication of the five major categories of risk (business, strategy, market and credit risk disclosure) over the volatile 2007-2009 global financial crisis (GFC) time period between Indonesia and Malaysia...
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Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of sustainable practices as proxied by the environmental, social and governance (ESG) score on capital structure. It also investigates whether ESG performance influences the speed of adjustment (SOA) to target leverage in firms....
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provision of social justice in the form of the fight against poverty, inequality and unemployment and maintenance of political …
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Abstract Poverty is a global issue and a lot of attention and efforts of the international community have been made to … poverty due to rising unemployment and income deduction, identifying the factors affecting poverty becomes particularly … important. Financial inclusion has been recognized as one important factor affecting poverty reduction. This research is …
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