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Australia, since the early 1980s, has been a leading advocate and practitioner of the neo-liberal economic model, also known as the Anglo-Saxon (or Anglo-American) model due to its geographical origins in the UK and the US, and its subsequent ascendancy in Australia, New Zealand and Canada,...
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In examining child work and education in rural India, I find that Parental education and hours of non household child work demonstrate a U shaped relationship. I contend this is due to weak labor markets for skilled workers in rural India that creates a “high education trap.” This results in...
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cannot contribute to a gender gap in poverty, so gender differentials in poverty cannot be estimated. But, the Sustainable … Development Goals have put special emphasis on gender equality; therefore, new measures able to capture the gender differences are … three I’s of multidimensional poverty (incidence, intensity, and inequality) in Nicaragua as well as the gender …
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, household-based poverty measures ignore the intra-household inequalities and are gender-insensitive. Gender equality, however …, is at the center of the sustainable development, as it has been emphasized by the Goal 5 of the SDGs: “Achieve gender … poverty and gender inequality by proposing an individual-based multidimensional poverty measure for Nicaragua and estimate the …
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-dimensional poverty in the literature overlook intra-household inequalities, an issue that is crucial to a better understanding of gender …, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, shedding thus some light on gender differences in poverty and inequality in those … than the Salvadorians. Regarding the gender gaps, the overall estimates suggest that the incidence and the intensity of …
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Natural disaster is a key exogenous driver to unpredictable risk of uncertainty and cost of economic loss. GDP loss at national economy and welfare loss at household level in the world are major cost of such disaster. The cost that is a burden to households could change on income distribution...
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monetary poverty and inequality. Intra-household gender discrimination has been widely shown to shape expenditure decisions … dominated by gender discrimination among household members. Estimates for Chile show a substantial worsening of poverty and …
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This article examines the relationship between presence of vertical and horizontal inequalities and the emergence of social, distributive and civil conflicts in Belarus, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Ukraine. Are ethnic, religious or linguistic...
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In India, over the years, the progress in women’s nutritional status has been less impressive and remains as a major problem for health policy. The dual burden of nutritional disorder of women in India is posing a serious challenge not only for nutritional policy but also for socio-economic...
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intra-household inequalities, and to estimate the gender gap in multidimensional poverty and inequality, which cannot be … paribus. On the other hand, our estimates show that the gender gaps in multidimensional poverty are not substantial; women and … population in Nicaragua, the first effort to estimate gender gaps in multidimensional poverty and inequality in Latin America …
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