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The environmental-poverty nexus has been subject to research especially in relation to climate change. On the one hand …-economic panel data from Vietnam to calculate environmental income variables and a multi-dimensional poverty index (MPI). MPIs have … been developed to understand poverty in more detail and implement more efficient policies to lift people out of poverty. We …
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treatment effects of supermarket contracts on income and multidimensional poverty. On average, supermarket contracts increase … per capita income in smallholder farm households by 60%. We also find significant reductions in income poverty and … multidimensional poverty. Quantile regressions show that farmers in all income groups benefit, but richer households benefit more than …
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-tocountry policy variations in the inflation-poverty reduction causal nexus in selected sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries from 1981 … across countries in the inflation-poverty reduction causal nexus, this study uses robust Hatemi-J data decomposition … existing studies, the panel and country-specific findings exhibit several dimensions of asymmetric causality in the inflation-poverty …
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This study investigates the macro (structural and institutional) factors influencing working poverty by comparing among … from eligible two-parent households. The supply-side prescription of a mixed capitalist economy produced marginal poverty … alleviation. As a result, working poverty has become a pronounced social problem in many developed capitalist countries in recent …
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Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …
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