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What exactly is 'economic marginalization'? How should one conceptualize it, and what are the implications of such conceptualization? Economic marginalization can be conceptualized as outcome or as process (or structure). On outcomes, marginalization can be a static description, or a dynamic...
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analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … in which a higher minimum wage raises poverty, others where it reduces poverty, and yet others in which poverty is … unchanged. We characterize precisely how the poverty effect depends on four parameters: the degree of poverty aversion, the …
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problems with the 'pro-poor programme’, an effort to reduce poverty through the resources generated from community forestry …
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Ironically the poverty situation, as reflected in the official statistics, depicts a rather contrary scenario with … dryland regions having lower incidence of poverty despite their adverse agro-climatic conditions vis-à-vis the forest based … regions. Understanding these dynamics is very important for formulating a long-term strategy for the amelioration of poverty …
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This paper provides a robust normative evaluation of the spectacular growth episode that India has experienced in the last 15 years. Specifically, the paper compares the evolution, between 1988, 1996 and 2001 of the distribution of several individual attributes on the basis of ethically robust...
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Good empirical analysis of the intergenerational transmission (IGT) of poverty is challenging. This note clarifies this … the IGT of poverty. But it is also important to be alert to opportunities for improving data and for encouraging … collection of new and better data. [This paper was commissioned by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) www.chronicpoverty.org ] …
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evolution of debates relating to the impact of globalisation on poverty and economic growth in developing countries. A stock …
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How does growth actually trickle down to remove an individual’s poverty? Is it through increases in employment? What … people become poor in the first place? What pathways lead people downward into poverty? The results of some recent research … show that health is, indeed, closely related to the accretion and persistence of poverty. Those who fall into poverty and …
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Even as some households are coming out of poverty, other households are concurrently falling into poverty. Poverty … creation and poverty destruction are proceeding alongside. A bottom-up methodology for studying poverty was developed to help … examine movements out of and into poverty at the grassroots level. Applied within 178 villages of three states in India, this …
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There are three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human capital development), and technology and knowledge upgradation. It examines how the impact of SEZs is passed through each of these channels. ‘Employment generation’ has...
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