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This paper analyses changes in income portfolios of rural households and its determinants for the case of Ghana in the 1990s. Our analysis shows that, contrary to common beliefs, rural Ghana has seen major economic transformation, as households increasingly diversify their livelihoods by both...
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education, and there is an intimate connection between nutrition and poverty. The measurement of inequality is a highly … moreover to investigate the role and the effects on socio-economic growth. Keywords: Income distribution, inequality, poverty …How inequality is generated and how it reproduces over time? This has been a major concern of social scientists for …
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; Kuznets ratio; Theil inequality index, mean logarithmic deviation, and the Atkinson index. In the study settlements are either …
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evaluating access across the region?s physical (location), poverty, and income considerations. The paper also analyzes inequality …The South Asia region is home to the largest pool of individuals living under the poverty line, coupled with a fast … compounded by the unequal distribution of existing access for households. This study improves understanding of this inequality by …
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(DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. … technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to generate a time series …
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obtain measures for global inequality and poverty as well as global growth incidence curves. …
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poverty and inequality of a 10% increase the broiler world price. In general terms, we find an increase in poverty of two …This paper quantifies the distributional and poverty effects of national and external trade reform in Brazil using … zero labor income effect. Additionally, we find that poverty indicators decreased after national trade liberalization (both …
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This paper examines the effects of financial development on income inequality and poverty. The results of both cross …-country and panel data regressions suggest that inequality and poverty are reduced not only through enhanced loan markets, but … robust determinants of both income inequality and poverty. Finally, we find evidence that government spending leads to a …
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processes are, per se, sufficient for poverty reduction and inequality abatement. Abundant work has analyzed the link between … tariff reduction, poverty levels and inequality in both developed and developing countries. Gains from trade are generally … trade, poverty and inequality by analyzing the impact of trade liberalization through two main transmission channels: prices …
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