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of the green economy and sustainable development in South Africa if the increasing poverty level in the country is to be …The study investigates the relationship between the green economy and poverty in South Africa from 1990 to 2017. Data … on green economy indicators such as share of clean energy, CO2 emissions, human development index, secondary school …
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Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … segregated in certain provinces. We find beneficial impact of economic growth on poverty reduction, but this can depend on …
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Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … segregated in certain provinces. We find beneficial impact of economic growth on poverty reduction, but this can depend on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540743
inequality relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality … and median consumption expenditure increased. At the same time, poverty incidence and severity increased precipitously … regions in consumption or poverty levels. We also find that durable goods expenditures are the biggest contributor to …
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-agricultural work are positively correlated with poverty reduction. Compared to all other correlates, education attainment appears to be …Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …
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education are greater for younger than for older women, suggesting that women who give birth as teenagers tend to catch up with … high school education while young but not as they become older. The results on labor market participation show persistent …
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We argue that the partition of ethnic groups following the Scramble for Africa does not itself matter for development … affect development. Furthermore, the analysis of data from the Afrobarometer shows that the persistence of informal … partitioned group affects development …
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necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …
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This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to obtain the equivalent of a "shadow price" for each of these capabilities by estimating their impact on the success a country may have in reaching higher income per capita groups....
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