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countries. The overriding objective of promoting the globalization of developing countries is to reduce poverty and income … latest wave of globalization has bucked the past trend of increasing poverty and income inequality in developing countries … structural malaise that traps them in a vicious circle of poverty. They advocate the radical reshaping of the international …
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notifications of 1340/100 000 in 1996. These suburbs are characterised by overcrowding, high unemployment and poverty. It is … tuberculosis notifications with unemployment and its associated poverty emerged as the strongest association. …
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In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually focused solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line …
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Many products consumed on college campuses such as coffee and chocolate come from developing countries where producers are often paid insufficiently and exploited. Fair Trade certification of products guarantees producers a fair price and other social benefits. The objective of my CE/T project...
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how microcredit can provide access to hope. This paper explores the impact of world poverty on the world’s poorest of the …
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growing resources effectively to improve the welfare of the population and reduce poverty. The poverty head count index is ….6 percentage point reduction due to growth and a 1.2 percentage point increase due to inequality change.Since poverty is most … better business environment and infrastructure. The country needs a new trading arrangement with the European Union. Poverty …
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"Fish and fisheries make a major contribution to nutritional security and the fight against hunger and poverty in Asia …
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development policy concentrates on growth through poverty alleviation and the fisheries sector has a key role to play through the … problems of chronically low incomes amongst many of the world's fishermen has received much attention. Poverty alleviation … understanding of the features and factor of this poverty and without such an understanding any policy is unlikely to achieve the …
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This paper uses three waves of panel surveys at the household level to study growth and poverty in Albania over the … poverty line. I also find that infrastructure has not been an important determinant for income mobility, and neither has … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of economic reforms on poverty levels in India during the period … of population living below poverty line is used as proxy for aggregate level of poverty levels. The empirical study is … run equilibrium relationship between the two and the direction of causality flowing from reforms to poverty. Further, it …
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