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populous state of India, and espouses a balanced and moderate approach. The existing literature focuses only on human …, development, inequality, globalisation, urbanisation, and empowerment. The study further explores the relationship between bank … lagging behind other states of India. Through a twin indicator approach, broadly grouped into income and non-income, the study …
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issues fromaccess to education and health services, consumption patterns, to the impact on poverty,inequality, and labor …In recent years, reducing poverty has been a core objective of social policy in Latin America. In2008, the incidence of … poverty reached almost a third of the population, of which 13 percent areclassified as extremely poor. Most Latin American …
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There has been an increasing demand for involving stakeholders in the development of sustainable civil infrastructure systems. It has been acknowledged that one key element of a project is stakeholder involvement. As such, failure to successfully involve the stakeholders of an infrastructure...
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Ab den 1980er Jahren entwickelte Amartya Sen eine neue Wohlfahrtstheorie: den Capability Approach (Sen, 1979; 1985; 1992; 1999; 2009). Dabei ersetzen Capabilities und Functionings, d.h. das, was Personen tatsächlich in der Lage sind zu tun und zu sein, den traditionellen Einkommensansatz. Armut ist im...
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in recent decades in the fight against poverty and the reduction of inequality on a global scale, which this century … has been an influential actor in the policies to tackle inequality and poverty worldwide. The historical account of the …
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in recent decades in the fight against poverty and the reduction of inequality on a global scale, which this century … has been an influential actor in the policies to tackle inequality and poverty worldwide. The historical account of the …
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This thesis consists of three empirical chapters related to distributional outcomes, such as poverty and inequality, in … urban inequality.Chapter 3 examines the impacts of the 2001 U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement on provincial poverty … bivariate poverty is lower in Germany than in either the UK or the USA. On the other hand, poverty comparisons between the UK …
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This paper aims to deepen our understanding of the determinants of income inequality in Uganda. Over the past 10 years …, Uganda experienced gradual and sustained economic growth and poverty reduction. The benefits of growth, however, are not … contribution of each income source to overall inequality; (ii) Decomposition of consumption expenditure into subgroups in order to …
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"We develop an evolutionary game theory model for a limited access common pool resource. With full disclosure of individual extraction decisions and payoffs we conjecture that subjects will imitate the most successful players’ strategy as long as their payoffs increase. We derive a stable...
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reducing inequality. Educated workers in these countries have a much lower birth rate than uneducated workers. Assuming … incorporating this effect generates multiple stedy-state levels of inequality, suggesting that in some circumstances, temporarily … increasing access to educational opportunities could permanently reduce inequality. Empirical evidence suggests that the …
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