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. ....The 1995-96 agricultural census is used to explore factors that account for differences in poverty among agricultural … which explain differences in poverty. Factors include farm size, family labor, profitability and the variables used to … are both important reasons for poverty among agricultural producers. It is unlikely that either one alone could solve the …
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effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6%, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage points …, issues of measurement error, and different samples. The negative effects of the storm partly explain the increase in poverty …
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. These effects are strongest for children who live in poverty. …
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In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned that non-marital childbearing and marital dissolution were undermining the progress of African Americans. I argue that what Moynihan identified as a race-specific problem in the 1960s has now become a classbased phenomena as well. Using data from a new...
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Economic theory and common sense suggest that time preference can cause or per- petuate poverty. Might poverty also or … ex- periment, both in India, and analysis of the American Time Use Survey. In all three studies, poverty is associated … with diminished behavioral control. The primary contri- bution is to isolate the direction of causality from poverty to …
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Purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates are extensively used by researchers and by policymakers. This paper proposes and implements a new methodology for calculating PPPs using information on unit values from household surveys. Although unit values are not identical to prices, they have...
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This paper reviews recent research on the relationship between education and health in poor countries. Multiple causal pathways link the two domains, across different phases of an individual’s lifecycle and across generations in a family. Within an individual, childhood health enhances...
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TPoverty and well-being are concepts that cannot be separated, and research on poverty is implicitly linked to welfare … economics. Poverty, in the complex conditions of modern societies affected by financial and economic crises, requires a clear … estimating poverty. Three steps necessary for poverty measurement are introduced and, also, multidimensional and poverty dynamics …
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poverty reduction (i.e., headcount ratio) in Pakistan. In order to determine the relationship, this study uses time … health, education, economic growth and poverty reduction. In the short-run, there is observed unpredictable change in poverty … financed and monitored accordingly, reduces poverty in Pakistan. In order to reduce poverty, the impact of positive economic …
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heritance among the poor. Societies with higher rates of relative poverty will have a higher level of income inequality, but … upwardly mobile. Reviewing relevant research in psychology, we describe how poverty is associated with decreased psychological … diminishes intergenerational mobility even without the existence of any culture of poverty or monopolistic institutions in the …
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