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Las ciudades del mundo a menudo son consideradas como centros privilegiados y de riqueza pero también acogen a cientos de millones de niños para quienes la pobreza y la exclusión son una realidad cotidiana. Algunos de estos niños viven en la calle; muchos más viven en casas peligrosas e...
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Le città del mondo sono spesso considerate luoghi in cui abbonda la ricchezza e il privilegio. Esse ospitano però centinaia di milioni di bambini per i quali la povertà e l'esclusione sono una realtà quotidiana. Alcuni di questi bambini vivono nelle strade; molti altri vivono in alloggi...
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millions of children for whom poverty and exclusion are a daily reality. Some of these children live on the street; many more … change for and with children. The key to eradicating urban poverty and exclusion lies in the development of child …
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An alarming drop in population numbers has been observed in many of the transitional countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Bloc since the collapse of communism in the region. This paper documents the extent and causes of the crisis. The author finds wanting the currently fashionable...
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This Innocenti Occasional Paper examines the social and economic dynamics of poverty in Latin America from the late … of poverty in the region. He goes on to outline a number of economic and programmatic policy proposals that could help …
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This paper attempts to analyze the depth of poverty and examines the causal relationship between disability and poverty … finds higher level of poverty and income inequality among disabled elderly as compared to non-disabled elderly and those … differences in the income levels vary significantly across different age groups, gender, social groups and educational status …
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In this paper, the trend and determinants of health and poverty among the elderly in rural India is analysed. Two … independent and pooled datasets. Our analysis shows that levels of consumption poverty have declined marginally between 1995 …-96 and 2004 while increased proportion of elderly with poor health status is continued. Results suggest that poverty is one …
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test for statistical significance of results. All results are decomposed by household type and region. Poverty estimates …We study inter-temporal changes in poverty for Germany from year 1978 to 2003, and we employ the bootstrap method to … are particularly high for single parents. Most striking, however, is the poverty divide between the old and newly …
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The present study concentrates on the income distribution effects of A Finnish Work Incentive Trap Reform started in 1996. I estimate how the reforms made have affected income levels and income inequality - the distribution of economic wellbeing. I look at the effects both without and with...
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Blanchard’s (1985) model is modified to build an OLG model with an increasing probability of death, endogenous growth and a bequest motive. The motivation is to obtain a more rich, realistic and flexible framework to reproduce -using numerical methods- some stylised facts of the age-profiles...
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