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This paper investigates dynamic effects of remittances on households' poverty and income distribution. Using state … time a dose-response function approach to assess poverty effects due to variations in the time-length of receiving … remittances. Our results suggest that remittances alleviate both absolute and relative poverty levels and lead to a marginal …
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This paper explores a novel way to analyse poverty dynamics that are specific to certain measures of multidimensional … poverty, such as the "adjusted headcount ratio" proposed by Alkire & Foster (2011a). Assuming there is panel data available, I … show that a simultaneous and comprehensive account of transitions in deprivations and poverty allows complex …
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fails tobring the level of poverty to a level roughly comparable to what is found in the region and toreduce inequality …
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poverty and affluence poles and regimes, for fulltime selfemployed, employees and subsequently for further socio …
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Poverty in Turkey has declined significantly between 2003 and 2006, as a result of rapid poverty reduction in urban … areas. In the same time period, the reduction in poverty in rural areas has been slow or non-existent. As a results, the … relative risk of poverty has increased in this time period for those employed in the agricultural sector, living in rural areas …
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This study provides thresholds of inequality that should not be exceeded if gender inclusive education is to enhance gender inclusive formal economic participation in sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalised Method of Moments and data from 42 countries during the...
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Financial inclusion is a key element of social inclusion, particularly useful in combat-ing poverty and income … investigate the impact of financial inclusion on reducing poverty and income inequality, and the determinants and conditional … robust evidence that financial inclusion significantly reduces poverty rates and income inequality in developing countries …
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This paper explores a novel way to analyse poverty dynamics that are specific to certain measures of multidimensional … poverty, such as the "adjusted headcount ratio" proposed by Alkire & Foster (2011a). Assuming there is panel data available, I … show that a simultaneous and comprehensive account of transitions in deprivations and poverty allows complex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598937
In this study, we examine the contributions of growth and redistribution to poverty reduction in Mexico during the … period from 1992 to 2014, using repeated cross-section household data. We first decompose the observed changes in poverty … contributor to poverty reduction in Mexico. In the second part of our analysis, we compile a unique panel dataset at the state …
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We here use repeated cross-section data from the Afrobarometer, Asianbarometer Latinobarometer, and Eurobarometer to analyse the variables that are correlated with both current and future evaluations of standards of living. These are related not only to an individual's own economic resources but...
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