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Intergenerational Poverty in Developing Countries : A Critical Review Followed by a Two-Stage Firoza Model

Siddika, Rahnuma; Ahmad, Sibbir - 2022

Poor people are trapped in a vicious cycle of intergenerational poverty. This study critically reviews existing literature to explore why long-lasting poverty exists despite various initiatives taken by national and international development organizations (NGOs), charity organizations, and...

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Debt, Investment, and Growth in Developing Countries with Segmented Labor Markets

Buffie, Edward F. - 2020

We introduce a new suite of macroeconomic models that extend and complement the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG …'s properties by analyzing the growth, debt, and distributional consequences of big-push public investment programs with different … mixes of investment in human capital and infrastructure. We show that investment in human capital is much more effective …

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Social Mobility, Inequality of Opportunities and Delinquent Activities : A Theoretical Approach (Movilidad social, desigualdad de oportunidades y actividades delictivas: un enfoque teórico)

Nuñez, Carlos - 2009

This work develops a model of endogenous criminal activities to study the effects of inequality of opportunities and social mobility on the crime level. In particular, a general equilibrium model derived from the economic theory of conflict is proposed, in which a group of heterogeneous agents...

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Economy of the Welfare State : Foundations and Creation Under the Conditions of Market Transformation

Osipian, Ararat - 2008

Categorical essence, structure, and multilevel institutional and functional foundations of the welfare state are discovered in the monograph. Criteria, chronological limits, and content of the stages of arising, creation, development, and descend of the welfare state with accounting of modern...

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(Anti)Poverty Measures Exposed

Lipman, Francine J. - 2018

Few economic indicators have more salience and pervasive financial impact on everyday lives in the United States than poverty measures. Nevertheless, policymakers, researchers, advocates, and legislators generally do not understand the details of poverty measure mechanics. These detailed...

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Capability Approach : A Formal Introduction

Leon, Dorian - 2017

The capability approach has been made operable and an example is the Human Development Index and the Multidimensional Poverty Index (Dotter & Klasen, 2014). However, its operable nature in the field of evaluation of specific dimension such as education, gender and poverty from a diffuse...

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Sharing the Pie : Undernutrition, Intra-Household Allocation, and Poverty

Brown, Caitlin - 2018

Anti-poverty policies often aim to reach poor individuals by targeting poor households. However, intra-household inequality may mean many poor individuals reside in non-poor households. Using Bangladeshi data, we first show that undernourished individuals are spread across the household...

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Measuring Chronic Poverty

Foster, James E. - 2014

A new class of chronic poverty measures is constructed that builds upon Jalan and Ravallion (1998) but does not require resources in different periods to be perfect substitutes when identifying the chronically poor. We use a general mean to combine the resources of a person into a permanent...

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Trade Reforms and Poverty : A Gender Welfare Impact of the ECOWAS Common External Tariffs on Households in Togo

Wonyra, Kwami Ossadzifo - 2018

This paper estimated the welfare outcomes of Togo's implementation of the common external tariff of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), with particular focus on gender issue. First, we detect the induced changes in prices following the transition to the ECOWAS CET. Second, we...

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A short note on RAS method

Bui Trinh; Nguyen Viet Phong - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 4, pp. 133-137

For many researchers around the world, the applications of the RAS method can say in both easy way and difficult way. In our study, we would like to bring to readers the RAS method, and in the best way to understand in balancing the Supply-Use tables or Input-Output tables in the usual...

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