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The primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the population. However, there is growing unease that blindly replicating these policies might inflict irreparable damage to poor households and foment social unrest in...
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This study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of …
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Mozambique on household consumption poverty. To predict changes in income and the associated effects on poverty and inequality … two main impact channels are at work leading to higher consumption poverty: direct income/wage and employment losses. To … consumption and poverty. Our simulations suggest that consumption decreased by between 7.1 and 14.4 per cent, and that poverty …
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production periods. The mines led to an increase in consumption and a decline in poverty, because of workers moving out of …
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migration and multidimensional poverty by applying inverse probability weighted regression adjustment (IPWRA). We find that …
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Mozambique experienced important reduction in the poverty rate until recently, before two major natural disasters hit … national household expenditure survey is from 2014/15, just before these crises unfolded, there is need for a poverty … study the evolution of multidimensional poverty in Mozambique using the Demographic and Health Surveys/Malaria Indicator …
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The political consequences of economic inequality have been debated in academic and policy circles for centuries. The nature of this relationship seems highly dependent on specific contexts, with empirical studies showing mixed evidence on how economic inequality affects voting and other forms...
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