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transformation. The standard trade theory postulates that trade openness contributes to poverty alleviation directly by changing … the trade-to-grossdomestic-product ratio to measure openness often fail to find a direct effect of openness on poverty over … effectiveness of the factor proportion channel may be due to limitations of the commonly used measure of trade openness: the trade …
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Inclusivity is perhaps the single most important human need to facilitate and demonstrate fairness for all members in an open and free society. When this principle need is compromised by appearances of unscrupulous self-interested privileged elites to perpetuate a systemic widening disparity...
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Macroeconomic costs of conflict are generally very large, with GDP per capita about 28 percent lower ten years after …. Conflict is also associated with dramatic declines in official trade, with exports (imports) estimated to be 58 (34) percent …
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Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less …-developed countries does not necessarily induce a substantial increase in the wage differential and trade volumes. Building on step … evidence is consistent with the implications of defensive innovations for wage differentials, trade volumes and the sectorial …
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recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications. We … begin with the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, before sketching out some core features and approaches to the … welfare state and anti-poverty policies. We then focus on the central plank of the modern welfare state's efforts to address …
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This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the … poverty reducing as the one in force (or more in some dimensions), and a generator of greater welfare. …
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. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and …
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The study of poverty and its quantification is a critical yet unresolved problem in social science. This work seeks to … use a new composite indicator to assess poverty as a multidimensional concept. However, subjective decisions, such as …-based composite indicator. Our method generates robust and trustworthy measurements based on a meaningful conceptual model of poverty …
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economies of scale are understated (as is the case when using the 'square root of household size'), the relative poverty …
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