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In Jordan, a system of general food subsidies became untenable in budgetary terms, with a sharp devaluation of the dinar in the late 1980s. A shift from a general subsidy system to limited rations would greatly reduce budgetary costs and minimize adverse effects on the poor. To reduce subsidies,...
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Objective – The poverty issue in East Java Province is an interesting research object. This phenomenon has retrieved in …. The local government through their budget should focus on their problem solving, i.e. poverty alleviation. Utilizing panel … regression, we found that government spending on education and health can reduce poverty rate.Methodology/Technique – OLS …
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This paper examines the impacts of public capital expenditures on the agricultural production, welfare, poverty and … rural households by affecting the welfare, inequality and poverty …
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This paper studies the impact of migration on poverty, expenditures, and labor market outcomes in Nepal. Between 2001 …-in-difference methods. The findings show that increases in migration to Gulf-Malaysia explain 40 percent of the decline in poverty between …
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We ask what caused poverty to decline in Brazil during the first decade of the 21st century. Our contribution lies in … the introduction of a structural change perspective to assess the evolution of poverty by considering the sectoral impact … in the literature that the service sector rather than agriculture contributes the most to the sustained poverty reduction …
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true income per capita and $1-a-day poverty rates for the developing world and its regions. We obtain poverty estimates … survey-based poverty literature more generally …
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There has been some recognition in the development community that building technical capacity of public service providers and increasing resources is not enough to bring about development outcomes. Researchers and practitioners are increasingly appreciating that accounting for the stated needs...
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analysis of debt, development, and poverty …
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In this paper we review the available summary measures for the magnitude of socio-economic inequalities in health. Measures which have been used differ in a number of important respects, including (1) the measurement of "relative" or "absolute" differences; (2) the measurement of an "effect" of...
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