Search Results - subject:"basic needs"

Lebenswege in die Altersarmut : biografische Analysen und sozialpolitische Perspektiven

Brettschneider, Antonio; Klammer, Ute - 2016

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Australia's retirement income policy : means testing and taxation of pensions

Kudrna, George - In: CESifo DICE report : journal for institutional comparisons 14 (2016) 1, pp. 3-9

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Impact of MGNREGA on the livelihood security of rural poor in India : a study using national sample survey data

Das, Saswati - In: Oxford development studies 44 (2016) 4, pp. 420-440

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The political economy of a living wage : progressives, the New Deal, and social justice

Stabile, Donald - 2016

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Selbsterhaltung : ein ethisches Kriterium zur Bewertung von ökonomischer Theorie und Sozialstaat

Thieme, Sebastian - In: Ökonomie! Welche Ökonomie? : Stand und Status der …, (pp. 51-70). 2016

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The Political Economy of a Living Wage : Progressives, the New Deal, and Social Justice

Stabile, Donald - 2016

1 Introduction: The Economics of a Living Wage -- 2 The Living Wage from World War I through the Great Depression -- 3 Planning a Living Wage: The NIRA -- 4 A Useful and Remunerative Job: The National Labor Relations Act -- 5 Social Security: Protection from Old Age and Unemployment -- 6 The...

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Modelling the Distribution of Multidimensional Poverty Scores: Evidence from Mexico

Berenger, Valérie; Villarreal, Cuauhtémoc Calderón; … - In: Estudios Económicos 24 (2009) 1, pp. 3-34

The main purpose of this paper is to explore a new methodology already developed by Berenger and Celestini (2006). This theoretical method based on fuzzy sets approach makes it possible to define a multidimensional poverty score lying, as for income, between 0 and infinity in order to...

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Human Capital vs. Physical Capital: A Cross-Country Analysis of Human Development Strategies

Siddiqui, Rizwana - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2009

to identify the importance of basic needs in human development strategies in Asia, Africa, and the rest of the world (ROW …). The results show that income per capita has priority over basic needs expenditure in development strategies of all regions … despite being quantitatively different. However, the importance of basic needs expenditure cannot be denied in terms of …

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Income and beyond: Multidimensional poverty in six Latin American countries

Battiston, Diego; Cruces, Guillermo; Lopez-Calva, Luis … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009

This paper presents empirical results of a wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay, for the period 1992–2006. Six dimensions are analysed: income, child attendance at school, education of the household head, sanitation,...

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Poverty, education and employment in the Arab-Bedouin society: A comparative view

Abu-Bader, Suleiman; Gottlieb, Daniel - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009

The socio-economic situation of the Arab-Bedouin population in the Negev is examined in light of the general Israeli Arab population. Based on the Galilee Society's social survey for 2004 Israeli Arab poverty incidence was found to be 52% with nearly two thirds in persistent poverty. Among...

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