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Empirical evidence suggests that regional disparities in incomes are often very high, that these disparities do not necessarily disappear as economies grow and that these disparities are itself an important driver of growth. We use a novel approach based on multilevel modeling to decompose the...
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Empirical evidence suggests that regional disparities in incomes are often very high, that these disparities do not necessarily disappear as economies grow and that these disparities are itself an important driver of growth. We use a novel approach based on multilevel modeling to decompose the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005589950
The concepts of well-being and quality of life concern evaluative judgements. There is insufficient understanding in current literature that these judgements are made variously due to not only use of differing values and differing research instruments but also differing standpoints, differing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837471
The concepts of well-being and quality of life concern evaluative judgements. There is insufficient understanding in current literature that these judgements are made variously due to not only use of differing values and differing research instruments but also differing standpoints, differing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602813
This paper investigates the effects of inequality in health on economic growth in low and middle income countries. The empirical part of the paper uses an original cross-national panel data set covering 62 low and middle income countries over the period 1985 to 2007. I find a substantial and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210413
The negative impacts of climate change have made poverty and deforestation topics of heightened interest within global … community discussions in recent years. Our study contributes to the debate over the links between poverty and deforestation by … providing an alternative approach from the village level perspective, whilst broadening the range of poverty measures based on …
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The term "social development" is used rhetorically in pleas for less focus on "economic development". In that context it is commonly assumed that social development will add to human happiness and more so than economic development does. These claims are checked in an analysis of 141 contemporary...
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The supermarket revolution has arrived in China and is spreading as fast as or faster than anywhere in the world. As the demand for vegetables, fruit, nuts and other high valued products have risen, urban retailers are finding new venues seized on niche and today have over $55 billion in sales,...
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Agricultural research in marginal dry areas can contribute to reducing poverty through the development of technological … implications on where and how research must be targeted to have impact on poverty. Households less endowed in land and natural … discuss the pathways that these different groups can undertake to escape poverty, with emphasis on those that use agricultural …
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Vulnerability to poverty is a major problem in the rural areas of Sub Saharan Africa. Rural Households are confronted … contribution of indigenous fruit trees towards reducing vulnerability to food insecurity and poverty. The methodology used is a …
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