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optimal anti-poverty budgetary rules for two kinds of intervention, direct income transfers and wage employment programmes. …
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inequality and poverty to changes in factor endowments and changes in economic and employment structures. We also provide some …This paper seeks to measure and explain changes in incomes, inequality, and poverty in Kenya. It starts from a very … income, inequality and poverty over time, and to explain why they evolved in the way they did. We relate changes in …
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by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. …
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Poverty reduction has long been one of the political priorities of the European Union and its member states. Despite … the political declarations and measures applied, poverty is still a phenomenon that affects the everyday lives of about 70 … million Europeans. Moreover, trends in poverty incidence show how poverty risks are sensitive to overall socio …
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The aim of this study is to examine the effect of FDI on employment in ECOWAS sub region between 1990 and 2019. The … and employment across ECOWAS sub region. In the short run, the impact of FDI on employment is negative and statistically … not significant. Meanwhile, in the long run FDI has a positive and statistically significant impact on employment rate …
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This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country …'s paradox of high economic growth alongside rising poverty and inequality. The methodology adopted is the Shapley decomposition … approach, complemented with econometric estimation of the country's employment intensity of growth. The findings indicate that …
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on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross … higher degree of flexibility in weekly hours. The 2012 reform is found to preserve employment and generate a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work-sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …
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performances of the Macedonian economy. On the other hand, the FDI impact over employment is negative mainly due to the low level …This paper elaborates the economic impacts of the foreign direct investments (FDI) on the case of Macedonian economy …. Most developing countries consider FDI a vital source for their development. Anyway, it is quite difficult to measure the …
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the poverty alleviation agenda. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and external debt were used as proxies for foreign capital … found FDI to worsen poverty in the short run when infant mortality rate and HDI were used as poverty proxies. The study …This study investigates the impact of foreign capital inflows on poverty in Vietnam, using annual time series data from …
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For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...
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