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Consumption And Income Poverty Over The Business Cycle
January 1, 2011 12:00am PST
The authors examine the relationship between the business cycle and poverty for the period from 1960 to 2008 using income data from the Current Population Survey and consumption data from the...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Five Decades Of Consumption And Income Poverty
March 1, 2009 12:00am PST
This paper examines poverty in the United States from 1960 through 2005. The authors investigate how poverty rates and poverty gaps have changed over time, explore how these trends differ across...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Informality And Poverty: Are These Processes Dynamically Interrelated? Evidence From Argentina
December 1, 2009 12:00am PST
Poverty and informal employment are often regarded as correlated phenomena. Many empirical studies have shown that informal employment has a causal impact on household poverty, mainly through low...
Provided by: ECINEQ
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Poverty And Microfinance In Eritrea ? A Discourse
October 14, 2008 12:00am PDT
The poverty levels in Eritrea are alarming. In the light of the escalating nature of poverty, there is an urgent need for a poverty alleviation initiative to reduce miseries of the majority of the...
Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Estimating Poverty For Indigenous Groups In Chile By Matching Census And Survey Data
August 1, 2008 12:00am PDT
It is widely held that indigenous Chileans experience greater rates of poverty and indigence than non-indigenous Chileans, yet the evidence to date has been based on surveys that are not...
Provided by: University of Michigan
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Economic Decision-Making In Poverty Depletes Behavioral Control
December 9, 2010 12:00am PST
Economic theory and common sense suggest that time preference can cause or perpetuate poverty. Might poverty also or instead cause impatient or impulsive behavior? This paper reports a randomized...
Provided by: Princeton University
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Microfinance And Poverty A Macro Perspective
October 27, 2010 12:00am PDT
This paper tests the hypothesis that microfinance reduces poverty at macro level using cross-country and panel data, based on the Microfinance Information EXchange (MIX) data on MFIs and the new...
Provided by: University of Manchester
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Measuring Poverty Using Both Income And Wealth
September 1, 2010 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the approaches to poverty based on income and wealth that have been proposed in the literature. Two types of approaches are considered: those that...
Provided by: Levy Economics Institute
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Minsky's Approach To Employment Policy And Poverty: Employer Of Last Resort And The War On Poverty
September 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
While Hyman P. Minsky is best known for his work on financial instability, he was also intimately involved in the postwar debates about fiscal policy and what would become the War on Poverty....
Provided by: Levy Economics Institute
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Poverty News 1.0 (Mobile)
December 23, 2009 12:00am PST
With so much information available about Poverty it can be incredibly difficult to take it all in. Poverty News makes things easier by compiling the best news, videos, articles and columns in this...
Provided by: Brighthouse Labs
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Globalization And Poverty: Comparative Analysis Of Bangladesh And Nigeria
February 1, 2009 12:00am PST
Globalization and Poverty are two key contemporary issues in economic development with the former assumed to be causing the latter in developing countries. Developing countries are characterized...
Provided by: Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin, Nigeria
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The Linkages Between Growth, Poverty And Inequality In Vietnam: An Empirical Analysis
November 1, 2008 12:00am PDT
This paper examines how initial inequality and poverty rate are related to subsequent economic growth in the provincial level of Vietnam. The results show a robust negative relationship between...
Provided by: Development & Policies Research Center
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Determinants Of The Growth Semi-Elasticity Of Poverty Reduction
September 4, 2008 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors examine the mathematical relationship between growth and distributional change on absolute (i.e. percentage point) changes in FGT poverty measures assuming a log-normal...
Provided by: University of Gottingen
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The Impacts of Growth And Inequality On Rural Poverty In China
August 1, 2006 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes the evolution of poverty in China from the late 1980s to the late 1990s, employing a version of Shapley decomposition tailored to unit-record household survey data. The changes...
Provided by: United Nations University
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Global Poverty Estimates: Present And Future
September 1, 2010 12:00am PDT
The authors review the recent empirical literature on global poverty, focusing on key methodological aspects. These include the choice of welfare indicator, poverty line and purchasing power...
Provided by: ECINEQ
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Income Distribution And Growth's Ability To Reduce Poverty
August 1, 2010 12:00am PDT
The present paper examines the degree to which income distribution affects the ability of economic growth to reduce poverty, based on 1990s data for a sample of rural and urban sectors of African...
Provided by: United Nations University
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Inequality, Income And Poverty
August 1, 2010 12:00am PDT
Analysing a large sample of 1980 - 2004 unbalanced panel data, the current paper presents comparative global evidence on the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves...
Provided by: United Nations University
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The Impact Of A Minimum Pension On Old Age Poverty And Its Budgetary Cost: Evidence From Latin America
July 1, 2010 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the impact on old age poverty and the fiscal cost of universal minimum old age pensions in Latin America using recent household survey data for 18 countries. Alleviating old...
Provided by: Universite Catholique de Louvain
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Growth And Inequality Effects On Poverty Reduction In Italy
March 1, 2009 12:00am PST
This paper deals with the evaluation of poverty sensitivity to growth and distributional changes in Italy, across its regions and over a three-decade period, spanning from 1977 to 2004. The...
Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Inequality And The Impact Of Growth On Poverty: Comparative Evidence For Sub-Saharan Africa
December 1, 2008 12:00am PST
This paper explores the extent to which inequality affects the impact of income growth on the rates of poverty changes in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) comparatively with non-SSA, based on a global...
Provided by: United Nations University
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