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-group) and poverty with 3sls using South African data. The findings suggest that production is affected negatively by between … Kuznets process. There is a significant poverty-increasing (reducing) effect of total and between-group inequalities (output …
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This essay addresses the incidence of temporary migration in poor rural economies. The methodological view taken here is that temporary or seasonal migration is a strategy of self-insurance, used largely by peasant households in order to cope with the risk of unemployment and income loss during...
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, income generation and empowerment, and poverty reduction in low-income economies. Having provided a conceptual framework and … the theoretical underpinnings of the linkages of entrepreneurship to job creation, income empowerment and poverty … cycle of poverty which has predominantly characterised low-income economies. The paper argues that entrepreneurship is the …
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potential impacts. This study simulates the impact of alternative cash transfer programs on school attendance and poverty among … reduce child poverty and encourage school attendance. If means-testing is not feasible, then programs targeting the children …
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This paper illustrates how Lorenz Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. After highlighting some drawbacks of using specific functional forms of the Social...
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In this paper we present a comparative analysis of poverty and income inequality prevalent in the seven towns of Lahore …
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impacts of cash transfer programs for children to identify targeted groups that will have the most effect on poverty and … yield significant poverty reduction. With regard to improving school attendance, the same targeted groups generally provide … the biggest impacts as well, though the impacts on school attendance tend to be smaller than on poverty reduction. …
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Benefit receipt in major household surveys is often underreported. This misreporting leads to biased estimates of the economic circumstances of disadvantaged populations, program takeup, and the distributional effects of government programs, and other program effects. We use administrative data...
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This paper highlights the global economic prosperity and portrays the anatomy of poverty in developing countries. It … analyses the incidence of rural and urban poverty persisting in fourteen countries including India. It address the … contradiction of coexistence of poverty and hyper economic growth in the globe. It is found that the growth elasticity of poverty is …
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This paper examines the indirect linkages among foreign direct investment (henceforth, FDI) and poverty reduction …
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