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The middle-income trap is a serious problem in developing Asia and Pacific economies. Middle-income trap is the … unattainable. International remittances of immigrants to their country of origin is one of the most important elements contributing … to the development of middle-income countries. By using a data set consisting of 12 Asia and Pacific middle …
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The middle-income trap is a serious problem in developing Asia and Pacific economies. Middle-income trap is the … unattainable. International remittances of immigrants to their country of origin is one of the most important elements contributing … to the development of middle-income countries. This paper by using data set consists of 12 Asia and Pacific middle …
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foreign direct investment (FDI). This paper examines the impact of international remittances on poverty reduction using the …: poverty headcount ratio, poverty gap ratio, and poverty severity ratio. Results show that international remittances have a …International remittances represent the second most important source of external funding for developing countries after …
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Catastrophes in Sudan are of many dimensions. Food security is a chronic and intrinsic problem in Sub Saharan Africa which is a fact recognized by the international society. Political instability, civil wars and finally recent secession of its Southern part is another fact which may be taken as...
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the multidimensional nature of poverty and how to measure it, then identifies aggregate indicators of the performance of … Indian states and the overall achievements and failings of India in terms of poverty alleviation. In the second half, the … article identifies what seems to be the lack of a ‘politics of poverty' in India and the various cultural, historical …
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is the emergence of energy poverty, a condition where households are living in inadequately heated homes. This paper … examines the institutional and demographic underpinnings of energy poverty in Macedonia and the Czech Republic, two post … 'hidden' geography of poverty encapsulates the character of domestic energy deprivation among these populations. Energy …
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poverty.The basic premise of the work-first model that continuing participation in the labor force will lead to economic self … at least three quarters a year over a multi-year period, which are the prerequisites for rising above the poverty … these workers to the poverty threshold would increase economic output by another three-quarters of a billion dollars a year …
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“Multirecipients” are people who receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments while living with other recipients (not including an SSI-eligible spouse). Using Social Security Administration records matched to Current Population Survey data for 2005, this article examines...
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Poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) should not be ascertained only on the basis of scarce and unreliable … poverty and inequality have increased over the past 30 years are based on regional income estimates with falling medians and … and more dehumanizing poverty in the years ahead even if meaningful economic growth is achieved. As underscored by the …
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different types of interventions to cushion its impact. The analysis forecasts that the number of people living in poverty …
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