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such data. While the idea of “time poverty” is not new, and while many papers have provided measures of time use and hinted … at the concept of time poverty, we have not seen in the literature formal discussions and measurement of the concept of … time poverty alongside the techniques used for measuring consumption poverty. Conceptually, time poverty can be understood …
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poverty and inequality of an increase in the working hours of the population up to what is referred to as a full employment … reduction in poverty, even at the relatively low current levels of wages and earnings enjoyed by the population. However, even … at full employment levels, poverty would remain massive, and the higher workload that the full employment scenario would …
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Evidence for Malawi and other developing countries suggests the existence of labor shortages at the peak of the cropping season, with negative impacts on the ability of households to make the most of their endowments such as land. At the same time, for most of the year, there is substantial...
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One of the aspects of the orphan crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa relates to time use, namely where orphans end up living and what they spend their time doing in their new household of adoption. While some orphans are welcomed in centres and institutions, many live with relatives or other members of...
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This study is concerned with the measurement of poverty in the context of developing countries. We argue that poverty … literature on this topic, our methodology introduces a critical but missing analytical distinction between time poverty and time …
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This paper serves as an introduction and overview for a volume that aims to shed light on the question of “time poverty …” in Sub-Saharan Africa and its relationship with consumption-based measures of poverty, as well as other development … outcomes. Time poverty, especially as seen in the “double workday” of women, has long been a staple of discussion of women …
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Poverty status is an important factor influencing household production and the unpaid work time associated with it due …, we examine the presence of poverty-based asymmetries in the unpaid work time changes of men and women during the Great … Recession. Using the 2003–12 American Time Use Survey, we find that these changes indeed varied by poverty status. In …
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poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …
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The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …
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This paper examines the link between poverty and income, on the one hand, and human capital and location, on the other … household head to the education of the most educated member. The paper finds poverty to be most severe and persistent for … perpetuating poverty. …
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