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measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992–2010. Changes in these measures are … separated into rural and urban regions. We find that the PRC has grown rapidly with increasing inequality accompanying this …
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inequality; and the importance of institutions to growth. Local development experience also reveals the interrelatedness of the …; the role of health to human capital; the significance of human capital to poverty and inequality; the value of human …Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty …
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inequality; and the importance of institutions to growth. Local development experience also reveals the interrelatedness of the …; the role of health to human capital; the significance of human capital to poverty and inequality; the value of human …Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty …
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the lowest percentile as compared to other countries. The dimensions of pro-poor growth, which include poverty, inequality … that there is a strong relationship between good governance and reduction in poverty and inequality. It is concluded that …-poor policies, which ultimately reduce poverty and inequality in the long run. To face the challenge of good governance, Pakistan …
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poverty has decreased but inequality has increased between these years. The main problems in the state are stark inter …This paper attempts a decomposition analysis of Poverty scenario in UP during 1993-94 and 2004-05. It was found that … Bundelkhand, is making relatively impressive progress in poverty reduction. The study also tries to highlight the way anti-poverty …
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This paper presents a few of the latest statistics on income poverty, growth and inequality, and makes a case about the … need not only to monitor current poverty, but also to reduce future poverty. An assessment of the trends in household … vulnerability to income poverty is made for the years 2000, 2003, and 2006. Measurement of household vulnerability is based on the …
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This study extends the literature on the relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction by differentiating … growth and poverty into their sectoral compositions and locations. We find that growth in the rural services sector reduces … poverty in all sectors and locations. However, in terms of elasticity of poverty, urban services growth has the largest for …
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Half of the world’s population—3 billion people—lives below the poverty line, and Asia has the largest share …. In pursuit of sustainable economic development and poverty alleviation, there is great potential among low … examples of institutions and policies in Asia that have successfully generated and tapped into the potentials of low …
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Half of the world’s population—3 billion people—lives below the poverty line, and Asia has the largest share …. In pursuit of sustainable economic development and poverty alleviation, there is great potential among low … examples of institutions and policies in Asia that have successfully generated and tapped into the potentials of low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278237
Till date,conceptualisation of poverty in Bangladesh’s policy making is limited to income/consumption poverty where a … rise or fall of income/consumption above or below a pre-defined poverty line determines changes in poverty. To identify the … budgetary and fiscal measures which can be redesigned in a way that can significantly reduce poverty and ensure economic and …
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