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Using a randomized trial, we evaluate the impact of a free privately-managed middle school in a poor neighborhood. The research compares over time adolescents randomly selected to enter Liceo-Jubilar and those that were not drawn in the lottery. Besides positive impacts on expectations, we find...
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This study has uniquely established that financing women though Self Help Groups has a significant role in empowering women, which is a smart economics indeed in achieving the objective of economic development of the weaker sections. The findings of this study establish using the statistical...
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The purpose of this study was to present an application of SAM multiplier to Total Poverty Gap using simulation and … speculation method. Also, an appropriate trade policy was derived in each region aimed at reducing poverty. The results revealed …. Moreover, to reduce poverty, meat sector should be strongly supported to be exported commodity in North America, Latin America …
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The main focus of this study is Rural Punjab and it contributes to regional poverty research in two ways; first, using …), it provides fresh poverty estimates for the rural areas of the Punjab. Second, the poverty differential across the … these zones. This study shows four major factors that explain inequalities in poverty levels. First, the rural areas of two …
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empirical analysis builds on four indicators of economic development that are per capita GDP, inequality, poverty and employment … and losers simultaneously and the net welfare impact is negative. As far as eradication of poverty is concerned, it has … been found that trade accentuates, not ameliorates, and that it intensifies, not diminishes, poverty in case of Pakistan …
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capita expenditure, work efforts, poverty and inequality. The estimates suggest that a rise in international remittances in …, at the least in the short run, do not reduce poverty. They may even lead to an increase in inequality. Overall, the study … casts doubts on the view that international remittances may play a crucial role in reducing poverty in developing countries. …
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over its effects on the improvements of job creation, inequality and poverty. In 2007, Macedonia experienced 6.1% real GDP … poverty rate were one of the highest in Europe, 34.9% and 29.4%, respectively. The global economic crisis worsened the … economic developments in the country, further increasing the poverty rates (30.4% relative poverty rate in 2012) and inequality …
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In this lecture, I will try to start answering the question of whether the pension reforms enacted in Europe since the 1990s will prove to be sustainable. This broad question has embedded in it both theoretical and empirical sub-questions. On the theoretical side, I will need to see how best to...
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Abstract The Asian economic crisis which began with the floating of the bhat by Thailand on July 1 1997 is still having devastating effects on the livelihood and the well being of millions of people in many parts of the world. The financial crisis spread from Thailand to other Asian countries,...
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The impact of trade liberalization on growth and employment is a much debated and controversial issue. In theory, trade liberalization results in productivity gains through increased competition, efficiency, innovation and acquisition of new technology. Trade policy works by inducing...
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