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poverty incidence, it will be more difficult for the government to devise appropriate policy measures. Using a general … staple food. However, the poverty impact of an increase in the price of other product such as soybean is also non … agriculture food product tend to increase inequality and the increase in poverty incidence is larger in rural areas than in urban …
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agricultural systems (including crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry) to support global food security and poverty reduction in …
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This paper examines an innovative approach to access to and demand for quality health care from the poor. Using data from a field experiment in India, I examine the impact of high-quality care experiences in the form of a free medical consultation with a qualified nongovernmental organization...
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tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative …
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A rapidly growing number of households are suffering from energy impoverishment caused by escalating electricity prices, low income, and poor housing energy efficiency. Many households are experiencing considerable hardship in paying energy bills. This manifestation of inequality has followed...
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focused our study on the years around 2005.For many countries, Romania for example, the major security threat is the poverty … which can fuel organized crime activity. Poverty can fuel the extremism and radicalism attitudes, the diminishing of the …
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maintaining usual levels of household expenditure. …
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by the law. In 2008, the US Virgin Islands (USVI) Legislature decided to pass Act 7027 which required the USVI Bureau of …
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The political ideologies and economic strategies promoted since the early 1980s have created the ingrained welfare conditions that current reforms are meant to address. Behind the reforms is an ideology that not only seeks to reduce the role of the state but also implicitly blames the poor for...
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