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"This book provides an overview of the rapid development Beijing has seen in a wide range of areas in 2019, both within itself and as an integral part of a larger region, as China's economic development continues to improve in overall quality and regional coordination. General reports on...
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Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty impact of the public tax and transfer system in Peru....
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The aim of the book is to understand how India's Unique Identification Number (Aadhaar) will make the poor free. Although Aadhaar's contribution to food security, employment generation, education, and public health is rather modest, it does create a platform for the financial inclusion of the...
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The implementation of social policies is often hampered by the fact that local decision-makers may be unwilling or unable to implement the policy as intended by the central government. In contrast to research that focuses on incentivizing and holding local decision makers accountable, we examine...
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The paper focuses on the increasing incidence of working poor families in Nigeria. Data from the ILO and NBS suggest … that, not only is the number of working poor families in Nigeria increasing, despite governments efforts at increasing the … depend on their being employed. The paper uses data from Nigeria’s General Household Survey to characterize inducing factors …
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