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We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …
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greater share of benefits from economic growth. Household size was a critical determinant of poverty levels. Sector of … need for smaller family size has to be an integral part of policy aimed at poverty reduction in Nigeria. The support of the … poverty in the different parts of the country. One size does not fit all. Deliberate effort of the government in …
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This study examines the factors influencing rural dwellers participation in Millennium Village Project (MVP) in Pampaida of Kaduna State, Nigeria. Specifically the socio-economic characteristic of the beneficiaries of the project were identified; and factors influencing rural dwellers...
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Poverty though a universal phenomenon, is the worst challenge in the modern era, which is termed as the age of … information and technology. The present study was designed to estimate the incidence of poverty for the grade I employees of … Rawalpindi city. Determinants of poverty were explored by using Probit model, which was significant in the determination of the …
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The paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of how employment change relates to changes in poverty in the … employment was accompanied by a relatively sizeable change in poverty rates as well. According to our preferred regression model … estimates, poverty to employment elasticity has been around 25 percent on average in the EU in the period between 2005 and 2012 …
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This study examines the nature and extent of time poverty experienced by men and women in subsistence households in …% of men face time constraints. Women’s time poverty worsens when the burden of simultaneous care work is taken into … poverty faced by women. …
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women. Alternative reforms to the Old Age Security could make it possible to achieve similar effects on public finances …
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Views on poverty are deeply rooted in cultural frameworks about the human condition shaped by histories. In the debate … on modernity, perspectives on poverty oscillate between: a) making the poor -- their "morals" and "culture … in the discourses on poverty, which surfaced in the context of capitalist industrialisation and political debates on …
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