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A fundamental premise of absolute poverty lines is that they represent the same level of utility through time and space …. Disturbingly, a series of recent studies in middle- and low-income economies show that even carefully derived poverty lines rarely … satisfy this premise. This article proposes an information-theoretic approach to estimating cost-of-basic-needs (CBN) poverty …
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A fundamental premise of absolute poverty lines is that they represent the same level of utility through time and space …. Disturbingly, a series of recent studies in middle- and low-income economies show that even carefully derived poverty lines rarely … satisfy this premise. This article proposes an information-theoretic approach to estimating cost-of-basic-needs (CBN) poverty …
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This paper presents an analysis of the decentralization process that has been taking place in Bolivia over the last couple of decades. It starts with a review of the legal framework that determines the distribution of responsibilities and financial resources to the sub-national governments (9...
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Uganda has seen impressive economic growth and substantial poverty reductions over the past few decades. Today …, official headcount poverty stands at about 20 per cent. However, recent research relying on non-monetary wealth indicators … challenges official poverty statistics and suggests that headcount poverty is about 60 per cent higher. We argue that an outdated …
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