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economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …
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high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in … 1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching … significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country's extremely …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …
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Shakespeare, this paper examines the relations between poverty levels, economic growth and changes in inequality in Tanzania …Studying the relation between economic growth and income poverty reduction without taking changes in the distribution … during the 1990s. It offers four conclusions. First, the efficiency with which growth reduces poverty increases with a …
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efficient than urban growth, and agricultural growth more efficient than manufacturing growth. Second, poverty reduction in … growth-hampering income inequality, and better focus onb gender issues. … nuanced picture than the one usually available. Here, three major arguments are developed. First, the poverty reduction (PR …
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transitory dynamics of integrated economies. Income inequality affects the patterns of growth and international specialization as … distribution, growth and international specialization. The model is explored both for the steady-state properties and the …
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functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under the prism of monopoly and frictional growth, and … disclose the dramatic upward trend in inequality. On this basis, we estimate a two-equation model for the income distribution … labour share fall, while its increase in the 2000s prevented inequality from worsening three times more than it actually did …
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dramatic transformations in the past century. While Classical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial … understanding of macroeconomic activity and the growth process. A metamorphosis in these perspectives has taken place in the past … on the growth process. …
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Community based health insurance (CBHI) is more suited than alternate arrangements to providing health insurance to the low-income people living in developing countries. The universal health insurance scheme, launched recently by the Prime Minister of India, is only one of the forms that CBHI...
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