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This article investigates the process of reducing poverty in ethnic minority households. Using two recent Vietnam … decreasing the poverty gap and decreasing poverty severity. Different ethnic groups have different poverty patterns, which should … be noted when designing policies to alleviate poverty and inequality …
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Poor people are trapped in a vicious cycle of intergenerational poverty. This study critically reviews existing … literature to explore why long-lasting poverty exists despite various initiatives taken by national and international development … (education & skills) is one of the most important factors that facilitate the intergenerational transmission of poverty in …
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of poverty as captured by the headcount ratio. We examine the roles played by the stock of attributes and by the impact … lower expenditures and higher poverty incidence than Albanians. …
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during most of the 1990s. We examine the incidence and depth of poverty and some of its correlates in post-conflict Kosovo …
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of poverty as captured by the headcount ratio. We examine the roles played by the stock of attributes and by the impact … lower expenditures and higher poverty incidence than Albanians. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761829
This paper analyses the effects of activity choices on farm household income and consumption in a war-affected developing country. The study uses household survey data from Mozambique and controls for the endogeneity of activity choices with instrumental variables. War-time activity choices...
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This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …
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during most of the 1990s. We examine the incidence and depth of poverty and some of its correlates in post-conflict Kosovo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839041
This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of scheduled caste (SC) and … scheduled tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty in SC and ST households is much … poverty line and an Oaxaca-type decomposition analysis, we study how these differences in the incidence of poverty arise. We …
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Using the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household survey from post-conflict Kosovo we investigate the comparative economic well-being of Serbs and Albanians. An Oaxaca decomposition shows Serb households are both better endowed with income generating characteristics, such as...
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