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Análisis del indicador de ocupación en condiciones de equidad (tasa de participación y empleo) propuesto por la organización internacional del trabajo y su aplicabilidad actual en...
Chacón Mata, Alfonso - In: Revista de Ciencias Económicas 30 (2011) 01
El presente artículo pretende evidenciar para el caso costarricense, la situación del ?Indicador de Ocupación en Condiciones de Equidad? propuesto dentro de la modalidad de trabajo decente de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo. En este sentido, se examinará el cumplimiento o no, del...
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Una propuesta metodológica para seleccionar potenciales beneficiarios en programas sociales
González, Gabriela; Cordero, Rebeca - In: Revista de Ciencias Económicas 25 (2007) 03
Esta investigación construye un índice sobre el bienestar de los hogares, para seleccionar hogares en situación de pobreza, en los distintos subsidios que otorga el Estado en sus programas sociales. El índice estratifica entre los hogares con bajo nivel de bienestar según grado de...
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REMITTANCES TO LDCS: CURSE OR PANACEA?
Rodríguez, Ennio - In: Revista de Ciencias Económicas 31 (2013) 06
Remittances directly reduce poverty of recipient households, spur an increase in education and health expenditures …
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The Illustrated Guide to the American Economy
Foss, Murray; Stein, Herbert - American Enterprise Institute
This book is a valuable asset for anyone seeking to make sense of economic news or, more importantly, to place it in a broader context.
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Good governance in microcredit strategy for poverty reduction: Focus on Western Mindanao, Philippines
Moreno, Frede G. - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für …
Microcredit can be an effective tool for tackling the global poverty problem. Making microcredit work better for the … economic options of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries within Third World economic and poverty conditions. Governance principles can … for poverty reduction and development. In view of the Philippine government’s limitations, economic and fiscal challenges …
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Levels and changes in income poverty, consumption poverty, and material well-being: A response to Shaefer and Rivera (2018)
Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - 2018
on trends in income and consumption-based poverty measures in the United States. …
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The use and misuse of income data and extreme poverty in the United States
Meyer, Bruce D.; Wu, Derek; Mooers, Victoria R.; … - 2019
More than half of all misclassified households have incomes from the administrative data above the poverty line, and … contrast, the households kept from extreme poverty by in-kind transfers appear to be among the most materially deprived …
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Ending homelessness: More housing or fewer shelters?
Corinth, Kevin C. - 2015
Over the past decade, a major effort to "end homelessness" has lead to a marked expansion in permanent housing for the homeless relative to shelters. In this paper, I use community-level data over the period 2007-2014 in the United States to estimate short and long run associations between...
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Using linked survey and administrative data to better measure income: Implications for poverty, program effectiveness and holes in the safety net
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2015
analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … also greatly understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often …. Using the combined data rather than survey data alone, the poverty reducing effect of all programs together is nearly …
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The impact of social ties on homelessness
Corinth, Kevin C.; Rossi-de Vries, Claire - 2017
While almost all homeless people are poor, most poor people do not experience homelessness. We use a detailed national survey to explore the role of social ties - including connection to relatives, friends and religious community - in explaining why only a subset of poor adults fall into...
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