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This study examines the rise and fall in income inequality in Ecuador over the past two decades. Falling income …. The new leftist regime's social transfer policies helped reduce inequality further, but the continuation of Ecuador …
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la desigualdad en cuatro países latinoamericanos con importantes procesos migratorios (Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras y … la desigualdad y en Ecuador, El Salvador y Honduras también se reducen significativamente las tasas de pobreza. La …
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This paper seeks to disaggregate concerns about energy security within the wider European neighbourhood from the nation-state to the household, and particularly to poor households in the transition and developing economies of the former Soviet Union. It argues that two decades of...
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a higher education subsidy cut reduces welfare and increases poverty in Vietnam. While rural and agricultural households …Education is often promoted as the solution to poverty in the developing world. Yet, fiscal discipline has led to … reductions in public spending on education. We examine the poverty impacts of a cut in public subsidies to higher education …
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This paper seeks to disaggregate concerns about energy security within the wider European neighborhood from the nation-state to the household, and particularly to poor households in the transition and developing economies of the former Soviet Union. It argues that two decades of under-investment...
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The generous Nordic model of welfare is commonly viewed as an exceptional success, in terms of both equality and … high welfare dependency, such as lone mothers, were vastly overrepresented among the poor. This prompted a workfare reform … of the Norwegian welfare system for lone mothers: activity requirements were brought in, time limits imposed and benefit …
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El objetivo de este trabajo es el de cuantificar el grado de desprotección al que se ven sometidos los individuos en los países de la OCDE durante el año 2003, mediante el cálculo de un Índice de Vulnerabilidad Social. La estimación de dicho índice se ha llevado a cabo a partir de la suma...
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