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This paper aims to study the mechanisms of the intergenerational transfer of poverty: it considers household poverty as … a risk factor for youth poverty. The study is based on a unique, nationally representative School-to-Work Transition …
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This paper aims to study the mechanisms of the intergenerational transfer of poverty: it considers household poverty as … a risk factor for youth poverty. The study is based on a unique, nationally representative School-to-Work Transition … living out of more than $3 a day. -- transition from plan to market ; poverty and inequality ; intergenerational transfer of …
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Child poverty increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 alone, the number of children suffering from … poverty in the EU increased by 19 percent, or close to 1 million. Left unaddressed, this would not only affect individuals … poverty and mitigate the long-term impact of poverty. Reducing the number of children affected by poverty can be achieved by …
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This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education investments, employment patterns and other features of the of the economic lives of the middle classes defined as those whose daily consumption per capita is between $2 and $4 or...
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Since the publication of the new multi-country reference standard by WHO it is likely that future progress in the fight against undernutrition will be tracked by using this new standard. The use of the new reference standard will result in clear changes in the prevalence and composition of...
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Several studies report large and persistent differences in standards of living and poverty within a country. In this … paper, we study whether the observed differences in poverty incidence in urban areas are due to differences in the …, differences in the parameters are an important determinant of household income and poverty within a country …
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This paper analyses multidimensional aspects of child poverty in Kenya. We carry out poverty and inequality comparisons … of poverty comparisons show that: children with the lowest probability of survival are from households with the lowest … level of assets; and poverty orderings for child survival by assets are robust to the choice of the poverty line and to the …
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In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
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public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … evaluating the effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. We found significant and negative effects of household participation in RPW and … food for work programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. Indeed, poverty and …
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