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people into a position of long-term poverty or serious liquidity problems. …
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We construct and derive the properties of an estimator of welfarewhich takes advantage of the detailed nature of information about living standards available in small household surveys and the comprehensive coverage of a census. By combining the strengths of each, our estimator can be used at a...
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are used to assess the ability of systems to alleviate poverty and maintain living standards, while setting out how …
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alarming with respect to economic well-being as the poverty level especially among the STs. Slow progress in expected change in …
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This chapter was originally drafted in 2007 to inform the diagnostic of Liberia’s first Poverty Reduction Strategy. It … Statistics and Geo-Information Services. The chapter estimates the level of poverty and vulnerability in the country, provides a … profile of poverty, and analyzes the household level determinants or correlates of consumption and poverty. Slightly less than …
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship Workers’ Remittances, poverty, and economic growth in Sub … models to determine the link between Remittances and poverty on the one hand, Remittances and growth on the other. Recourse … to the instrumental variables method turned out to be better for the estimation of the poverty model, while the standard …
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This module illustrates how Generalised Lorenz (GL) Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options, in many of the cases where ordinary Lorenz curves fail to work After...
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goal to reduce the poverty, extreme poverty and inequity and to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty by …
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growth, and urban equity measured by urban poverty and inequality in India. In addition, it reviews the different urban … of urbanization is associated with higher economic growth, lower level of poverty and higher extent of inequality in … higher share of national GDP by reducing urban poverty and inequality. …
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Despite over three decades of Liberalisation policies in Africa, income-inequality has stayed persistently high. Using updated panel data of 26 African countries spanning the period 1996-2010, this study examines the effect of liberalisation policies with particular focus on financial, trade,...
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