Showing 1 - 10 of 258,511
and long run GDP growth, and links these results with poverty incidence. Our simulation exercise takes into account … extra 0.89 and 1.80 percentage points in terms of long-run GDP growth and permanent reduction in poverty incidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696393
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003839715
and long run GDP growth, and links these results with poverty incidence. Our simulation exercise takes into account … extra 0.89 and 1.80 percentage points in terms of long-run GDP growth and permanent reduction in poverty incidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920259
We propose a systemic approach to MDG assessment, which aims at exploiting the existence of interrelations and sinergies among indicators via the integration of a macro scenarios model and a set of probabilistic microeconometric models. Given this integrated system and an explicit loss function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059793
The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government's stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310292
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002353441
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015191113
Nigeria has recorded impressive growth in the last decade, yet the impact of this growth on poverty reduction remains … unclear. This paper appraises spatial and temporal non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the first … is sensitive to indicator definitions, the overall results are robust and lend support to the view that poverty reduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411127
The objective of this study was to examine the role of social security in fighting poverty in Metlaoui, Tunisia, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011849813
In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014381180