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The great promise of surveys in which people report their own level of life satisfaction is that such surveys might provide a straightforward and easily collected measure of individual or national well-being that aggregates over the various components of well-being, such as economic status,...
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The great promise of surveys in which people report their own level of life satisfaction is that such surveys might provide a straightforward and easily collected measure of individual or national well-being that aggregates over the various components of well-being, such as economic status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558597
poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …
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We use the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-being (LIMEW), the most comprehensive income measure available to date, to compare economic well-being in Canada and the United States in the first decade of the 21st century. This study represents the first international comparison based on...
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underlies the design of most anti-poverty programs or other redistributive economic policies. Notwithstanding, extended income …
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inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …
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municipal HDI is affected by low levels of per capita income and high poverty levels. Thus, the establishment of mechanisms that … increase the amount of income and combat poverty will allow the Michoacan society aspire to higher levels of human development … same time in the reduction of poverty, while the rest will have to increase their income levels and reduce poverty with the …
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In the factors that affect income and poverty outcomes, there are some features unique to India. Caste, ethnicity …, religion and even regional origins all influence income outcomes. Therefore while examining individual poverty, the influence …
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We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …
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The income poverty of a household does not only depend upon its income but it also depends upon its capability to … in poverty reduction programme is the generation and availability of decent works. There is no denial of the fact that … income plays an important role in poverty reduction, but it is not the sole factor. The earning of a person depends on the …
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