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The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty in the context of … 1964–2011. The regression model encompassing the impact of economic growth and inequality on poverty reflects that a 1 …% increase in income while keeping the distribution constant reduces poverty around 0.162% in rural, 0.256% in urban, 0.471% in …
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The distributional characteristic measures how evenly or unevenly commodity group is distributed over the household total expenditure. The present study investigates the distributional effects of rising food prices in Pakistan. For this purpose, this study focuses on two different household...
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Forecasting poverty in the future is mostly a matter of forecasting economic growth. The objective of the study is to … examine the inter-temporal link between growth and poverty in Pakistan, over the next 25years period i.e., from the years 2011 … test the temporal causality among poverty measures (i.e., head count ratio, poverty gap and squared poverty gap), growth …
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, unemployment, inflation, poverty, inequality and political instability exhibits the positive association with the terrorism … is a significant relationship between poverty and terrorism incidence, as if there is 1 % increase in poverty rate … conventional view i.e., poverty cause terrorism in South Asia. One of the major economic problems arises when price level …
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This study extended the concept of ‘growth–inequality–poverty (GIP) triangle’ by using the principle component approach … which allows us to composite different poverty and inequality indicators into one single index that contains most of the … among weighted poverty index (which comprises headcount ratio, poverty gap and squared poverty gap); weighted inequality …
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This paper examines the impact of growth and income inequality on poverty for a panel of five selected South Asian … between poverty, growth and income inequality. The estimated long-run elasticities indicates that increase in economic growth … and income inequality contributes to a fall and rise in poverty, respectively. It was also found that the impact of income …
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. The monotonicity axiom sets out a condition that the proportional reduction in poverty is a monotonically increasing … a ‘poverty equivalent social expenditure rate’, which takes into account both the magnitude of social expenditures … interrelationship between social expenditures, inequality, and poverty. It is argued that the satisfaction of a monotonicity axiom is a …
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The lack of asset accumulation may be one of the major reasons for poverty; consequently, the poor have not been able …–2011. The regression model encompassing the impact of FDI on poverty reflects that if there is one percent increase in FDI is … likely to reduce poverty by 0.47% at urban, 0.44% at rural and 0.46% at national levels respectively. The result concludes …
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variance decomposition, etc. The result reveals that macroeconomic factors, i.e., population growth, price level, poverty and …, the influence of poverty seems relatively the least contribution level for changes in terrorism incidence in Pakistan. …
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poverty reduction (i.e., headcount ratio) in Pakistan. In order to determine the relationship, this study uses time … health, education, economic growth and poverty reduction. In the short-run, there is observed unpredictable change in poverty … financed and monitored accordingly, reduces poverty in Pakistan. In order to reduce poverty, the impact of positive economic …
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