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promote economic growth and alleviate poverty. The first of three major issues in this dissertation analyses macroeconomic … second issue evaluates policies which alleviate poverty by increasing agricultural production, creating employment and …
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promote economic growth and alleviate poverty. The first of three major issues in this dissertation analyses macroeconomic … second issue evaluates policies which alleviate poverty by increasing agricultural production, creating employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457368
parallel growth in the incidence of urban poverty. The objective of the paper is to estimate the incidence of poverty and … inequality in urban India during the last three decades using Parameterized Lorenz curve methods. Then using panel regression the … study examine how the incidence of urban poverty is being affected by various socio economics factors in urban West Bengal …
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This paper evaluates the causal effect of the Child Support Grant (CSG) implemented in South Africa on household food consumption and dietary diversity. The analysis uses the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) covering 2008, 2010-2011 and 2012, and carries out a regression discontinuity...
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This paper examines the extent of seasonal hunger and its food consumption vulnerability among rural households in the North West part of Bangladesh (i.e., the greater Rangpur region) and whether the Programmed Initiative for Monga Eradication or PRIME interventions (such as flexible...
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Missing data represent an important limitation for cross-country analyses of national systems, growth and development. This paper presents a new cross-country panel dataset with no missing value. We make use of a new method of multiple imputation that has recently been developed by Honaker and...
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influence of external debt on poverty on the other hand. The study relates to a sample made up of seven WAEMU countries between … of external debt increases poverty in WAEMU countries. …
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To assess the effectiveness of remittances on the poverty level of recipient households, we propose a causal inference … on the poverty status of Ugandan households, based on a longitudinal survey spanning the period 2009-2014 and where …
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evidence on the effect of remittances on poverty in an unbalanced panel of 40 high remittances economies. The endogeneity issue …, driven by the possibility that remittances and poverty may have bidirectional causality, is tackled by a system estimation … poverty. On the other hand, remittances decline with the wake of widespread poverty. There is consistent evidence that …
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The purposes of this study were to present the current situation of poverty, economic growth, and economic development … for five selected countries in Latin America and to examine the relationship between poverty, economic growth, and … model suggested that economic development is more effective and preferable than economic growth in eradicating of poverty …
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