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Despite of the fact that poverty is one of the major issues concerning policy makers, it has received less attention … explore the nexus between growth in services sector of Pakistan and its poverty reducing impact. A time series data ranging … indicate that growth in wholesale and retail trade and the ownership of dwelling reduce poverty only in the short run. Growth …
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levels of nutrition and rural poverty in the state, and finds a slowdown in these parameters. We contend that the neoliberal … agenda of uncontrolled, outward-looking growth does not result in reduction of poverty or malnourishment. The policy …
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Increasing inequality in Nigeria has been of growing interest to scholars, international political observers, and the Nigerian public since the creation of the country in 1914 by the British colonial masters. The focus of this article is on the extent to which the practice of democracy in...
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-held hypothesis that poverty compels children to work. The analysis of links between adult employment and child labor also lends …
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A plethora of strategies and initiatives have been proposed to address the development deficits in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, the resulting analyses have failed to converge on the actual causes of these shortfalls and to identify optimum solutions. As a result, disparities between the...
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the Urban Poverty Project (UPP), an ongoing World Bank/Indonesian government urban anti-poverty initiative in Northern …
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democratization and at what that means in the fight against poverty and under-development. It singles out Kinijit's structural …
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This article explores to what extent poverty, markets and entitlements act as incentives or deterrents for more … between poverty and resource degradation, and the need to consider access to markets. In a context of low and volatile prices …
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structural factors like poverty and inequality. As a result, inhumane conditions for millions persist and solutions that would be …
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Bangladesh boasts a wide array of targeted food assistance programs that strive to achieve a number of important developmental objectives. Findings from the 2000 Household Income and Expenditure Survey suggest that these programs are reasonably well-targeted towards the poor. Most of the...
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