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Examining the Associations between Sustainable Development Population Policies and Human Trafficking

McKee, Kathleen A. - 2015

The policy of sustainable development requires reductions in growth of human populations to promote environmental sustainability and economic development. The objective is to control environmental catastrophism and advance financial growth with population policies on a global scale to foster...

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Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income

Andrienko, Yuri - 2015

The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...

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Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income

Andrienko, Yuri - 2014

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Balancing natural resources and human and social capital : pathways to economic diversification in Mongolia

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - 2023

Economic diversification has gained significant attention as a crucial factor for sustainable development worldwide. This paper addresses the risks associated with extreme specialisation and explores the potential benefits of economic diversification for Mongolia. By comparing Mongolia with its...

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Does development reduce migration?

Clemens, Michael A. - 2014

suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of research, which has yielded six classes of theory to … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …

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Asset-Based Measurement of Poverty

Brandolini, Andrea - 2010

Poverty is generally defined as income or expenditure insufficiency, but the economic condition of a household also depends on its real and financial asset holdings. This paper investigates measures of poverty that rely on indicators of household net worth. We review and assess two main...

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Global evidence on gender gaps and child poverty in consumption

Aminjonov, Ulugbek; Bargain, Olivier; Colacce, Maira - 2025

Since intra-household resource distribution is unobserved, it is difficult to compare how women and children fare across countries. To address this, we analyze 45 household expenditure surveys from predominantly low- and middle-income countries, i.e. an international sample of around 2.4 million...

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Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis on Child Poverty and Options for a Policy Response in Cameroon

Emini, Christian Arnault - 2018

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Does globalisation increase child labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002

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Strategic Remittances of International Migrants

Zhu, Heng - 2021

Motives for remittance transfers and recipient’s subsequent use of remittance income is a widely researched topic in the economics of migration literature. However, choices over the format in which migrants send remittance is ill understood. Decisions over remittance transfers involve more...

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