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poor - instead of the entire transition matrix. Various poverty duration models accommodating unobserved population …
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Averaging methods are routinely used in order to limit biases resulting from the mismeasurement of permanent incomes. The Solon/Zimmerman estimator regresses a single-year measurement of the child's resources on a T-period average of the parents' income while the Behrman/Taubman estimator...
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evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …
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This paper analyses the evolution of inequality and poverty in Brazil during the 1980s, using a large repeated cross …-section household survey data set. We calculate standard scalar measures of inequality and poverty, together with decile means and … dominance is used in poverty comparisons. Sensitivity of the measures and of the observed trends to the equivalence scale used …
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Many consumers who lack checking accounts are paying relatively high costs to access the nation's payments system. Legislation aimed at opening the system to these unbanked individuals has centered on requiring commercial banks to offer low-cost "lifeline" accounts. But will cost savings alone...
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An explanation of an alternative analysis of poverty based on consumption rather than on annual income, which disputes … the documented breakdown in progress against poverty in the 1980s and concludes that the poor appear to benefit from a …
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organisations and women beneficiaries. A number of key questions related to poverty transition through poultry based activities …Poverty transition through a capacity development programme called the Bangladesh Poultry Model is assessed using self …-assessment dimension in a quasi experiment framework. Current poverty situation is compared with money metric measure. The programme …
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organisations and women beneficiaries. A number of key questions related to poverty transition through poultry based activities …Poverty transition through a capacity development programme called the Bangladesh Poultry Model is assessed using self …-assessment dimension in a quasi experiment framework. Current poverty situation is compared with money metric measure. The programme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005513613
with almost no machinery or purchased inputs at all, b) the income of a typical farm household is below a poverty line …
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The prevalence of poverty has been greater in nonmetro areas than in metro areas in every year since the 1960s when … poverty rates were first officially recorded. Accordingly, Federal funds for social assistance programs and community … development have favored nonmetro areas. This study suggests that adjusting poverty measures to account for cost …
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