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. Our results shed light on the importance of economic and financial education for the youth in developing countries. …
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This paper investigates the school-to-work transition of young people from subsequent graduation cohorts between 2005 and 2012 in Egypt. The analysis compares the early employment outcomes of those who left school after the January 25th 2011 revolution to that of those who graduated before 2011....
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While under communism, identity-providing religion was suppressed, religiosity is strong today even among the youth in …
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While under communism the identity-providing religion was suppressed, religiosity is strong today even among the youth …
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warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies … consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … poverty than transient poverty. The results are robust to different model specifications and measures of chronic poverty and …
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We investigate the impact of a large-scale poverty alleviation program targeted at 62 poorest districts in Vietnam … we do not find significant program effects on household welfare (as measured by per capita income and poverty) and local …
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are included, inconsistencies between different data sources could interfere with comparable poverty estimates. We test … the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in … proposed imputation methods. We also find that we can reasonably impute poverty rates using an older household income survey …
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Existing data are severely insufficient for monitoring progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly for poorer countries. While we should continue efforts to produce new, high-quality data, this approach seems not feasible for all poorer countries. We call for a more...
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, surprisingly hardly any evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of … subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher temperature to increase poverty. This finding is robust to various model ….1 percent increase in the headcount poverty rate, using the US$ 1.90 daily poverty threshold. Regional heterogeneity exists …
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pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …
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