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The recent financial crisis has shown that financial innovation can have devastating systemic impacts. International standard setters' and national regulators' response has been a global concerted effort to overhaul and tighten financial regulations. However, at a time of designing stricter...
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) barriers to entry prevail. The paper also explores the ITES industries' implications for economic growth and poverty reduction … employable or impoverished, let alone to the problem of rural poverty. …
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-dimensional and relational approaches to poverty and it examines the increased concern with the relation of inequality to poverty. The …Poverty reduction initiatives should be comprehensive, relational and global in their outlook even though poverty … Report provides a brief overview of contemporary work on conceptualisations of poverty. It outlines characteristics of multi …
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[Note:] This paper is an adapted version of the substantive part of the Final Report to the European Commission of the project 'Accurate Income Measurement for the Assessment of Public Policies (AIM-AP)', under Priority 7 'Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-based Society' of Framework...
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This paper describes the construction of a microsimulation model for South Africa (SAMOD), which is based upon the EUROMOD platform. The paper discusses the need for a new microsimulation model in South Africa, the reasons why EUROMOD was a particularly suitable candidate as a basis for the new...
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coding rules. Whatever the coding rule used, incidence of civil war is largely determined by poverty, country size …, mountainous terrain and ethnic diversity. Poverty reduces the opportunity cost of rebellion, and mountainous terrain makes …
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to changes in poverty and policy selectivity. To answer these questions a formal approach is used to quantify the effects … of four factors that influence aid allocation: poverty, policy, proximity and population. The results reaffirm findings …
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Assessments of whose income growth is the greatest and whose is the smallest are typically based on comparisons of income changes for income groups (e.g. rich versus poor) or income values (e.g. quantiles). However, income group and quantile composition changes over time because of income...
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This paper evaluates the effect of an anti-poverty program, Chile Solidario, during its first two years of operation …
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