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This study aims to analyze the contribution of the minimum wage valorization policy to the reduction in poverty that … occurred in the first decade of the 21st century in Brazil, considering not only the incidence of poverty but also its … contributed to a 38.2% reduction in the proportion of impoverished people, a 39.4% reduction in the intensity of poverty and 40 …
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efficiency and other factors on the poverty status of micro entrepreneurs using logistic regression. The average technical … beverage products. The factors that influence the poverty status of micro-entrepreneurs are technical efficiency, income, KUR …
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The objective of this study was to examine the role of social security in fighting poverty in Metlaoui, Tunisia, using …
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The study explored the impact of remittances on poverty in selected emerging markets. On the theoretical front, the … optimistic view argued that remittances inflow into the labour exporting country reduces poverty whereas the pessimistic view … measures of poverty [the poverty headcount ratio at US $1.90 and US $3.10 a day (% of population)] as dependent variables, the …
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The aim of this article is to investigate the causal relationship between remittances and poverty reduction for 14 …-stationary dynamic panel data. Our estimation results reveal that causality nexus of poverty and remittances is bi-directional. We also … find that the causal impact of poverty reduction on remittance is stronger than the reverse impact. Indeed, despite of its …
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The eradication of poverty as the main target of Sustainable Development Goal 1 by 2030 is the subject of this paper … related to poverty as a multidimensional concept. Further, the paper investigate concept of poverty and gives overview poverty … poverty has also a spatial dimension in all these countries. As part of this paper, the issues of the situation with poverty …
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Labor informality and poverty are at high levels in Latin America. In developing countries, poverty and the labor … labor informality and poverty in Colombia. To do so, earnings gaps associated with labor informality are estimated; then …, the effect of formalization on poverty is calculated, as the influence of changes in labor informality on Colombia …
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This article analyzes the behavioral effects of cash transfer programs when jobless people need to have access to a minimum consumption level. Our model reconciles recent evidence about negligible or favorable effects of cash transfers on job-finding rates and the more standard view of negative...
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The study examined the impact of globalization on poverty rate with evidence from middle-income country. It focused on … globalization had negative and significant impact on poverty rate in Nigeria. Therefore, the conclusion was made that globalization … had contributed significantly in reducing poverty rate in Nigeria. The study recommended the need for the government to …
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I use a stochastic model to explore the dynamics of poverty in India from 1952 to 2006 and find that temporal … transitions into and out of poverty are common. Model outcomes suggest that transitions out of poverty outnumber transitions into … poverty in recent times, but that there is still a nontrivial proportion of individuals transitioning annually into poverty …
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