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Canelas, Carla - 2015

poverty and informality in the country, taking into account the simultaneous two-way relationship between these two phenomena …

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Industrialization in developing countries : is it related to poverty reduction?

Erumban, Abdul Azeez; Vries, Gaaitzen J. de - 2021

This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth. We use the GGDC … contributions are used in a regression analysis, which indicates that poverty reduction is significantly related to structural … productivity growth account for a substantial share of poverty reduction in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and that …

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Literacy and information

Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher R.; Rammohan, Anu - 2021

Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy's role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household rice receipts by 30 percentage points. Second, we...

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Do international remittances promote poverty alleviation? : evidence from low- and middle-income countries

Saptono, Prianto Budi; Mahmud, Gustofan; Lei, Li-fen - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-20

remittances on poverty alleviation using data for 65 low- and- middle-income countries from 2002 to 2016. By using two-stage least … product (GDP) significantly mitigate poverty. On average, a 10-percentage-point increase in remittances will lead to a similar … decrease in the poverty headcount ratio at USD 1.90 a day, a 4.8-percentage-point decline in poverty gap ratio at USD 1.90 a …

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Has economic growth in Balkan Countries been pro-poor in the 2012-2017 period?

Zwierzchowski, Jan; Panek, Tomasz - In: Central European economic journal 9 (2022) 56, pp. 76-92

The study investigates whether economic growth in the Balkan countries was pro-poor in the most recent period. We also try to establish to what extent various measures of pro-poorness of economic growth produce consistent and comparable results. Firstly, concepts of pro-poor growth are defined...

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Impact of COVID-19 on poverty and living standards in Ghana : a micro-perspective

Bukari, Chei; Essilfie, Gloria; Aning-Agyei, Millicent … - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-23

Sustainable Development Goals, particularly poverty in Ghana. Specifically, the study examined the effect of COVID-19 on poverty … regressions. Results showed that COVID-19 had significantly increased the poverty levels of households while deteriorating living …

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Poverty, inequality, and growth : trends, policies, and controversies

Ferreira, Ines A.; Salvucci, Vincenzo; Tarp, Finn - 2022

Reducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations … evaluation of the main stylized facts concerning poverty, inequality, and growth. It will uncover existing trends, put …

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Recovery with distress : unpacking COVID-19 impact on livelihoods and poverty in Bangladesh

Rahman, Hussain Zillur; Rahman, Atiya; Faruk, Md. Saiful; … - 2022

The social and ecomomic impact of COVID-19 has been deep, wide-ranging, and multidimensional. While anecdotal evidence of distress among the poor, particularly those with informal occupations, has been widespread, effective policy response has required real-time, researched data disaggregated...

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Poverty and food security in India

Himanshu - 2013

Distribution System (PDS) and the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDM) - on poverty outcomes and on nutritional intake. This paper offers a … the significant impact of the PDS and MDM in terms of poverty reduction and calorie intake. While there are large … also contributed significantly to poverty reduction. Almost half of the poverty reduction in the distribution …

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Poverty trends in Turkey

Jenkins, Stephen; Șeker, Sirma Demir - 2013

This paper provides new evidence about poverty trends in Turkey between 2003 and 2011 and the factors accounting for … them. We give particular attention to issues of statistical inference, and the choice of the poverty line and the poverty … measure. Our robust conclusion is that absolute poverty declined rapidly between 2003 and 2008 but fell only slightly between …

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