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The wave of upbeat stories on the developing world's emerging middle class has reinvigorated a debate on how social class in general and the middle class in particular ought to be defined and empirically measured. With the aim of adding clarity to this debate, this dissertation provides a...
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Reducing poverty and inequality continues to be an important national priority in Namibia. Vision 2030 - the country …'s guiding development strategy - has a subordinate vision that points to several goals: "Poverty is reduced to the minimum, the … 2017. NDP4 sets specific numerical targets. One is reducing the incidence of extreme poverty to less than 10 percent of …
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1. Poverty and Deprivation in America -- 2. A Survey of Related Literature -- 3. Measuring Multidimensional Poverty … -- 4. A Profile of the Multidimensionally Poor in America -- 5. Variation in Multidimensional Poverty across Demographic … Cohorts -- 6. Variation in Multidimensional Poverty across Geographic Locales -- 7. Identifying the Determinants of …
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Evaluating Projects and Policy Interventions -- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Institutions -- Thinking Systematically: Poverty … of partner organizations. These goals, which focus on development and the elimination of poverty, serve as the agenda for … Poverty and Why Measure It? -- Summary -- Learning Objectives -- Introduction: The Concepts of Well-Being and Poverty -- Why …
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's population, we simulate scenarios for global poverty from 2019 to 2030 under various assumptions about growth and inequality. We …The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working towards a more equal distribution of incomes are part of the … use different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in inequality, and rely on a machine …
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The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality …-country allocation patterns among the projects of development institutions. This paper proposes a new geographic targeting indicator and …
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investigate the impact of financial inclusion on reducing poverty and income inequality, and the determinants and conditional … robust evidence that financial inclusion significantly reduces poverty rates and income inequality in developing countries …Financial inclusion is a key element of social inclusion, particularly useful in combat-ing poverty and income …
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