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poverty analyses in India. While the poverty debate highlights the severe inequalities that groups based on social identity … are applied in analysis and policy, the role of these categorisation in India’s targeted poverty programmes and recent BPL … (Below Poverty Line) Census, how these understate different manifestations of discrimination, and the risks that targeted …
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We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …
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problems with the 'pro-poor programme', an effort to reduce poverty through the resources generated from community forestry …
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interrelationships among poverty, private coping mechanisms and community coping mechanisms that affect tank performance. Primary and …
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This paper documents the impact of an after-school program called Apoyo Escolar, sited in the most vulnerable neighborhood of a developing country. The outcomes of interest are academic achievement, behavior in the classroom and grade repetition. We designed a field experiment exploiting the...
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Our previous work argued that the official U.S. poverty definition is flawed because it ignores interest paid on … argues that what is true of poverty is likewise true of income inequality indices, such as the gini coefficient and the …
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Despite the professed claims of microcredit alleviating poverty, little is known about what kind of credit contract is …
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Poverty being multi-dimensional in nature is the product of various interactive socioeconomic factors. Some of the … household. The main purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that explain their relative effect on poverty of the … household. Poverty thus captured at micro level is expected to provide insights for polices to alleviate poverty at national …
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The purpose of this study is to measure the impact of family size on the socioeconomic status of households in three sub-Saharan African countries (Cameroon, Mali and Senegal). This study has a microeconomic tie-in with the theory of social capillarity, which states that the smaller the family,...
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Guio, Gordon and Marlier (2012) have proposed a theory based analytical framework for developing robust (i.e. suitable, reliable, valid and additive) aggregate indicators that could be used for analytical and monitoring purposes at national and EU levels. They have applied this framework to...
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