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Place-based policies aim to stimulate economic development in disadvantaged areas with the goal of improving the well-being of residents. A provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act aimed to spur private investment in low-income areas called Opportunity Zones (OZs). We evaluate the impact of OZs on...
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Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa are confronted with the need to raise tax revenues in order to be able to provide a range of services to their populations. Yet taxes and other government revenues as a proportion of GDP are lowest in the poorest countries that need to expand their services...
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Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications; a further 20 suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly severe in developing countries, violating a fundamental...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between growth, poverty and income distribution using household data for Colombia … for the years 1996 to 2004. We study the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty by following the Poverty … degree to which the poor benefit from the growth process. We also carry out a decomposition of the changes in poverty to …
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The aim of this paper is to examine if tobacco consumption crowds-out consumption of basic needs and whether it has implications for nutrition intake and intra-household resource allocation in developing countries. In the process we also examine whether preference over other commodities for...
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of labour is near- zero and productivity of land provides only subsistence. Poverty keeps consumption and savings low …
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key determinant of better livelihoods and poverty alleviation. However, in most developing countries education is not … effect of the reform on household poverty and inequality. Analysis is based on the Ghana Microsimulation Model which has the …
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This paper has four main objectives: (1) to monitor the rise of poverty and income inequality during the first decade … of Russian transition; (2 to analyze the performance of the welfare state in reducing poverty and income inequality; (3 … reducing poverty among people in need. This study has also highlighted how the Russian society is now slowly acquiring those …
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This article has developed a new model of welfare dynamics under imperfect information or imperfect competition by introducing a new concept of ‘inefficient welfare equilibrium’. It assumes that an economy can be split into two virtual parts. For one part the fundamental welfare theorems are...
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regional economy-wide and poverty impacts of a US$36 million investment in tourism in the south of Haiti. The first social … representative household configuration to enable more robust analysis of tourism investment impacts on poverty and income inequality … of unemployment fell from 26% to 23%. The investment helped lift some of the region¿s poorest out of poverty, reducing …
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