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Catastrophes in Sudan are of many dimensions. Food security is a chronic and intrinsic problem in Sub Saharan Africa which is a fact recognized by the international society. Political instability, civil wars and finally recent secession of its Southern part is another fact which may be taken as...
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op het totale armoedecijfer per saldo verwaarloosbaar was. As a result of the persistent economic recession, poverty has … Netherlands over a 25-year period by applying a generalised budget approach. According to this criterion poverty steadily declined … ethnic minorities below the poverty line. The shrinking group of single earners came to experience a much higher poverty risk …
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The Human Development Index (HDI) improves upon per capita GDP as an indicator of development by incorporating information on health and education. However, like its predecessor, it fails to account for the inequality with which the benefits of development are distributed among the population....
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In Mexico, the Productive Organization Program for Indigenous Women (POPMI) seeks the empowerment of productive … high degree of social exclusion and multidimensional poverty in the State of Veracruz. In the study area, the 542 … indigenous women benefited in POPMI, presented a condition of multidimensional poverty and a degree of social exclusion: very …
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Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between …
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poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …
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living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved … (2020) and Galiani, Gertler and Bando (2016) in their studies on the non-contributory pension schemes in Peru and Mexico … Peru and Mexico and add to the construction of external validity. …
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trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper … provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis …), but no significant effects on poverty reduction or average household incomes are identified. The lack of impacts on …
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trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper … provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis …), but no significant effects on poverty reduction or average household incomes are identified. The lack of impacts on …
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important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local … monetary poverty. These results provide important lessons for policy on the effects of earmarked funds to reduce territorial … poverty and inequality in terms of incentives to design formulas to distribute earmarked fiscal resources to subnational …
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