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investigates the impact of the social security transfers on poverty in Vietnam. It is found that both pensions and social …Although there is no doubt that social security can help poverty reduction, their effect on poverty reduction can vary … expenditure than social allowances. Pensions and social allowances reduce poverty of the recipients as well as the whole …
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By using household data in 2004, this paper identifies the determinants of the elderly poverty in Vietnam. We find that … the likelihood of poverty for the elderly. In rural areas, higher ages, female, unmarried status, ethnic minorities …, residential regions, household composition, and household size are determinant factors of the likelihood of poverty for the …
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reach a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …
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a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …
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Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities …. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across … particularly affected. A comprehensive approach is required to ensure an effective transition out of poverty and social exclusion …
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poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case …, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny, in part because of the Millennium Development Goals and the growing …
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poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case …, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny, in part because of the Millennium Development Goals and the growing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688572
a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288268
reach a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288961
Which groups have particularly low pension entitlements and are therefore most at risk of poverty in old age …, unemployment, raising children or caring for relatives, all of which result in low pensions. Those who are most at risk of poverty …. In other words, those impoverished while young are most likely to remain impoverished into old age. Poverty among the …
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