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The Kyrgyz Republic has enjoyed remarkable success in poverty reduction in recent years. Poverty headcounts were halved …, these aggregate figures mask individual or household trajectories into and out of poverty. Additionally, the question arises … investigate poverty persistence and dynamics between 2005 and 2010, following an approach proposed by Dang, Lanjouw, Luoto, and …
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poverty in rural areas of Pakistan. This characterization of poverty is expected to yield insights regarding the link between … incidence of poverty and capacity of the poor to participate in the development process - essentially a function of the power … classification is useful in understanding the nexus between access to assets and poverty of an household. The calorie deficiency …
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The objective of this study is to investigate the weak links in the processes for poverty reduction in Macedonia. We … investigate the weak links between the budget lines and the poverty-reduction programs, involvement of vulnerable categories of … people and researchers in the processes for poverty reduction. 27.1% of the Macedonian population lived below the poverty …
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The major aim of this chapter is to extend the poverty studies of the sixties into the seventies, it also re …-examines the evidence on rural poverty for the sixties, supplementing the results with new evidence where available, mainly to see … whether the conclusions reached by earlier authors were in fact justified. An examination of the trends in rural poverty into …
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different types of interventions to cushion its impact. The analysis forecasts that the number of people living in poverty …
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different types of interventions to cushion its impact. The analysis forecasts that the number of people living in poverty …
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After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since … around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as … poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …
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-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since … the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both …
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relationship between inequality and growth, the role of agriculture in the development process, the relationships between ethnicity …This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the …
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date, and then to use this as a background for the analysis of poverty, inequality, and non-monetary outcomes. The analysis … of poverty and inequality uses the microeconomic data from three comparable and nationally representative Cameroonian …The purpose of this paper is to analyse the growth performance of the Cameroonian economy from independence in 1960 to …
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