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This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in … that measurement issues related to the way undernourishment and childhood undernutrition is measured might play a …
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This paper explores the labor market, poverty, inequality and pro-poor growth dynamics in the recent economic crisis …, unemployment and inactivity. Policy responses in the labor market to poverty and inequality increases from the economic crisis were …
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obtain measures for global inequality and poverty as well as global growth incidence curves. …
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Existing literature about poverty and environmental degradation suggests that poverty is the victim of environmental … degradation, but could not conclude whether poverty is also the cause of environmental problems. However, most of those studies … poor to disinvest in base-resource and the way that institutional failure may also be endogenously caused by poverty. The …
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Economic theories of the family, of gender discrimination and deprivation within the family are examined in the context of three Kondh-dominated tribal villages, relying on a survey. Background information about the groups surveyed, the study area and nature of the survey are provided and the...
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poverty. Simply checking whether people lack items for any reason provides results empirically as reliable, but subject to …
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Recently, there has been a resurgence in the interest in the determinants of income inequality across countries. This paper adds to this literature by examining the role of one further explanatory variable: macroeconomic volatility. Using a cross-section of developed and developing countries,...
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This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation--notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities--and the mapping between these functions and various forms...
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Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of ‘poverty’ and inequality’ and …
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