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five sets of constraints that may hinder the adoption and effective usage of savings products and services by the poor …
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Reducing gender inequality is a critically important development challenge, especially in countries with widespread and deep-rooted prejudices against women. In this study, we use a randomized control trial to examine whether facilitating Vietnamese men to reflect about gender equality can...
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private sectors, given their importance in the context of low-income countries. In line with previous work, we find that age …
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credible information about each other's HIV status. Using random variation in participation in couples' testing, this study …
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allocate an endowment to a private or to a public account. In our treatments, we first manipulate the degree of participation …) set in order to promote participation. The results show that leader guidance and participatory incentives significantly …
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In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …
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Brazil's recent growth has been intensely pro-poor, and both poverty and inequality have declined significantly in the …
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income sources considering the complex sampling design of the survey. Later this procedure is combined with stochastic …. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and … to preserve pressure points in income distributions associated with Brazilian institutional features such as minimum …
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using a US$4/day line (over and above market income poverty). Net direct taxes are always equalizing and net indirect taxes …Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases …
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This paper assesses the effects of public policies on income taxes and benefits in six African countries. The … inequality and poverty. The results are based on newly developed microsimulation models for Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, South … various income components. …
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