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This report, reexamining past estimates of tile effect of income and food stamp benefits on food expenditures, finds that a cash-only Food Stamp Program would result in a significant reduction in food expenditures, although smaller than suggested, by some previous results. Most prior studies...
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sacrificiu] in the public sector, poverty and unemployment amongst the branches of intellectual labor have reached an alarming …
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There has been a growing incidence of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa over the last two decades. Poverty is a … multidimensional social phenomenon that can be analytically divided into two main perspectives: human poverty which is the lack of … human capabilities and income poverty, which is the lack of income necessary to satisfy basic need e.g. poor life expectancy …
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This paper tries to investigate the effectiveness of two poverty alleviation policies adopted by Indian government … poverty of the rural households of India. …
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate the relative influence of neighbourhood and individual practices of care utilization in Dakar (Senegal). The data from a research program on urban malaria, made in Dakar, Senegal between 2008 and 2009. The sample was based on a two-stage sampling. A...
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Oil resources have enabled Chad to increase public financing for education and to achieve high economic growth rates. Regarding these policies to supporting the education sector, we assume that the standard of living of households does not explain the school attendance. We test empirically this...
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, lower poverty is robustly associated with higher media (newspaper circulation) penetration. …
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Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and Latin …
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The Health, Inequalities and Social Breakdown (SIRS) survey carried out in Antananarivo in April 2003 on a representative sample of 2,807 people, is part of an international research programme designed to compare the relationships between health, inequalities and social breakdowns in different...
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, especially in the scope of the new international poverty reduction strategies (PRSP and HIPC initiatives). To gain a better … of as extra-economic dimensions such as subjective forms of poverty, quality of institutions (especially public … development and for monitoring them in quantitative terms. Three specific modules (Multiple Dimensions of Poverty, Governance and …
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