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OECD member states and other middle-income countries. The health financing system was fragmented, with four separate …
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There is increasing recognition that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are an important international and development issue globally, undermining health gains and imposing financial and economic costs on governments and households. NCDs are an important health challenge in the Pacific. First,...
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OECD member states and other middle-income countries. The health financing system was fragmented, with four separate …
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individual utility is defined as personal income, and social welfare is the average of utilities in a population. A more … average income level of those in the society with the most disadvantaged circumstances, and the second dimension is the degree … to which total income inequality is due to differential effort, as opposed to differential circumstances. This pair of …
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of Ecuador - considers income distribution in relation to family size, and number of income earners; examines an income …ILO pub-WEP pub-PREALC pub. Working paper, econometric model of household income per individual, based on a case study …
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for basic needs satisfaction in Ecuador - analyses trends in economic growth, employment, income, wealth and income …
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The Northern Ecuadorian Amazon, the principal region of colonization of migrants in Ecuador since the 1970's, has been … paper we use detailed data from a longitudinal survey of migrant settlers in 1990 and 2000 in Ecuador to first estimate farm … household incomes, on-farm and off-farm. We then compute Gini coefficients for both land distribution and household income, and …
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Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able to gather individual-level data covering all...
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rains - on economic and social outcomes, using micro-level panel data from rural Ecuador. We employ high-resolution climate … affect income, poverty, and income distribution. Panel data regression models with household fixed effects show that rainfall … shocks reduce per capita income by 9% on average. The income losses are larger for poor than for non-poor households. Two …
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