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"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...
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restaurant thus appears to contribute to the fight against social exclusion as much as to that against poverty per se. …
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In this study, we analyze the privations welfare in Cameroon considering poverty and social exclusion. The framework … provided by the capability approach and construction of indicators of poverty and social exclusion by the fuzzy method from … ECAM III survey data shows that the overall level of poverty and social exclusion (respectively 0.4008 and 0.2291), are …
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has translated into substantial poverty reduction according to objective measures based on household survey data. At the … same time, many people do not feel that the poverty situation has been improving in their country or community, and this is … subjective perceptions of poverty trends, and what may explain this divergence? The objective of this short dissemination note is …
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Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa are confronted with the need to raise tax revenues in order to be able to provide a range of services to their populations. Yet taxes and other government revenues as a proportion of GDP are lowest in the poorest countries that need to expand their services...
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This paper empirically investigates the impact of Chile’s social protection’s monetary subsidies on vulnerability to … poverty during 1996-2006. Using the National Socioeconomic Characterization panel survey data, we adopt the Chaudhuri et al … unable to address the structural causes of vulnerability faced by individuals in Chile. …
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Chile provides an interesting setting to analyze vulnerability to poverty, especially today, after the last poverty … dynamics of poverty in Chile. To begin with, I examine socioeconomic transitions using transition matrices, confirming a great … in Chile by estimating a vulnerability measurement. The evidence reveals a high level of vulnerability to poverty present …
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The government of Chile has been using for many years a system for the targeting of many of its income transfers and … programs which are targeted using the ficha CAS play a major role not only in the alleviation of poverty, but also in its …
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dominated by gender discrimination among household members. Estimates for Chile show a substantial worsening of poverty and … monetary poverty and inequality. Intra-household gender discrimination has been widely shown to shape expenditure decisions …, nutrition status, and human capital accumulation of household members. However, conventional poverty and inequality analyses are …
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