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program on poverty and inequality. Our estimates indicate that the VBSP was quite effective. Participation on average seemed … computations indicate that the program decreased the head count of poverty for its participants by almost four percentage points …. Similarly, the program decreased the poverty gap index and the poverty-severity index by almost twenty percent. The impact on …
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This paper relaxes the single factor model of intergenerational educational mobility standard in the literature, and develops a research design to study the effects of parents' education and occupation on children's schooling. We use survey data from rural China that cover three generations and...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between poverty and armed conflict in Antioquia, Colombia. The poverty analysis is … framed within Sen’s capability approach, which forms the conceptual basis of the multidimensional poverty index (Alkire and … municipality. The possible existence of a relationship between poverty and armed conflict is analyzed through exploratory and non …
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This study examines the determinants or correlates of poverty in México. The data used in the study come from the 1996 …
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.a prime aim of international development policy is to reduce the proportion of people in poverty. There is something … of poverty unless the inflation rate for the poor is taken into account. There are other common flaws in economic … research on poverty: such as failure to take into account a) that extra items of expenditure may be needed in cities, where …
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Ethnic minorities in Vietnam have experienced high income fluctuation over time. This study aims to examine why a number of households experienced an income increase while others experienced an income decrease in poor areas with high density of ethnic minorities in Vietnam. It shows that the...
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of the world, but 11 countries among those with the lowest standard deviation. Let’s have a look at the backsides of … to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) project World Social Capital Monitor. …
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Most of the household surveys available in developing countries suffer from sample truncation because coresidency is used to define household membership. This paper provides evidence on truncation bias in the rank-based relative and absolute mobility estimates in coresident samples, and compares...
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The pro-poor growth concept came up in the economic literature recently and in the last decade a lot of researches have been dedicated to this study from many important international institutions and organizations. However, there are still disagreements on how we should intend the pro-poor...
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Catastrophes in Sudan are of many dimensions. Food security is a chronic and intrinsic problem in Sub Saharan Africa which is a fact recognized by the international society. Political instability, civil wars and finally recent secession of its Southern part is another fact which may be taken as...
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