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Abstract The standard method of poverty estimation uses unadjusted per capita income or expenditure to calculate … population below the poverty line. However, recent empirical advancements have validated this method to be essentially flawed in … investigations have confirmed the facts that the measures of poverty and inequality are sensitive to various choices of equivalence …
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allegations that programs “don’t work,” that programs are riddled with fraud, waste, and abuse, and that poverty alleviation is …
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Summary Effective from 2005, benefits for long-term unemployed have been reduced in Germany to the level of social assistance. This measure reflects the view that “all who are able to work, should work” - a view which makes sense only if the government can distinguish the disabled from the...
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-temporal changes in poverty from year 1978 to 2003. Results are decomposed by region and household types, and the bootstrap method is … have the highest poverty risk.Most striking is a huge regional divide in poverty which only narrows slightly over the … period under investigation: the incidence and the intensity of poverty are substantially higher in the New states. A …
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poor countries of Africa/Middle East and on the other hand, tightened border-security within Europe as a means to reduce … migration from the South; may worsen the state of poverty in Europe, particularly on the immigrants and impact on the workforce … Africa/Middle East and industrialised countries of Europe, migration will often increase, at least in the next two …
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Poverty remains a serious global issue, and nearly half of the world's populations are still living below the poverty … development policies and the export-driven development strategy, all of these countries escaped from poverty.Can other developing … countries duplicate this success and also bring their populations out of poverty? Some factors, including political stability …
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With increasing emphasis being placed on professionalism and a self-sustaining financial model, microfinance institutions are joining forces in national associations. This research explores the stated goals of these associations and the challenges they face in implementation, through content...
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This paper investigates the ways in which terrorism is linked to education and poverty using data newly culled from …
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provision of social justice in the form of the fight against poverty, inequality and unemployment and maintenance of political … equations determining crime rates against property, conviction rates and police and justice input using time series annual data … of legal justice through various deterrence measures, like a large police force, conviction and punishment, towards the …
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