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Purpose – With the rise in the opportunity to go to college, the purpose of this paper is to identify if China's rural poor are being excluded from the university system, and if so, why. Design/methodology/approach – Two sets of the authors' own primary survey data were used: a group of...
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household members. The paper also aims to find out how poverty lines and poverty counts derived from people's perception relate … to what has been previously reported. Design/methodology/approach – The Subjective Poverty Line (SPL) methodology is … young children need less grain than adults and that a schoolchild incurs higher money expenditures than an adult. A poverty …
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for un-poor farmers and to discuss its implication for poverty reduction microcredit rate policy. Design … implications – The study of this paper reminds policy makers that poverty reduction microcredit rate should really take endurance …
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. Second, the authors do not find evidences to prove the existence of a poverty nutrition trap in rural China. Third, the …
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Purpose – China and India are two of the fastest growing economies in the world, and poverty reduction has been … paper is to examine linkages between poverty, food security, and undernutrition in both countries. Design …/methodology/approach – In this paper, the authors discuss the linkages between poverty, food security, and undernutrition at the micro level …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a robust normative evaluation of the recent evolution of Indians' exposures to health‐related risks. Design/methodology/approach – The paper compares empirically the distributions of individuals' risks of death in India on the basis of new...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate India's five year plan strategies for including the deprived in the development process since Independence. Design/methodology/approach – This is a policy review paper based on past studies. Findings – The paper argues that effective...
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Purpose – Trade liberalization could either exacerbate or ameliorate the incidence of child labour. This paper aims to examine the effect of trade liberalization through membership in the GATT/WTO on the incidence of child labour across countries and over time. The authors examine child labour...
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Purpose – This paper aims to offer a theory on optimal group size. To overcome the problems of institutional credit facilities to the poor and marginal people, Joint Liability Group Lending (JLGL) is often considered as a better option. However, the literature in the field is surprisingly...
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-reform acceleration in growth has helped bring poverty down for all economic, social and religious groups and in all state or has left … urban areas, poverty has significantly declined between 1993-1994 and 2011-2012 with a substantial acceleration during the … faster-growth period from 2004-2005 to 2011-2012. Poverty rates among the disadvantaged social groups and minorities have …
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