Trends in poverty and the distribution o f income
How Good is Growth for the Poor? The Role of Initial Income Distribution in Regional Diversity in Poverty Trends
... reduce poverty by more than twice as much in East Asia than it does in Sub-Saharan Africa (Besley and Burgess 2003), which region therefore seems doubly cursed: both by low levels of growth and by a low ...
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A Decomposition of Poverty Trends across Regions: The Role of Variation in the Income and Inequality Elasticities of Poverty
... regional trends in poverty, mean income and the Gini index of inequality during the 1980s and 1990s as captured by the weighted averages described ...considerable income growth and ...
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Post Apartheid South Africa: Poverty and Distribution Trends in an Era of Globalization
... The poverty alleviation that has occurred has largely been achieved through expanding the social grant system, which has acted to reduce poverty and counter increases in inequality associated with recent ...
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Post-Apartheid South Africa: Poverty and Distribution Trends in an Era of Globalization
... The poverty alleviation that has occurred has largely been achieved through expanding the social grant system, which has acted to reduce poverty and counter increases in inequality associated with recent ...
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Post-Apartheid South Africa: Poverty and Distribution Trends in an Era of Globalization
... The poverty alleviation that has occurred has largely been achieved through expanding the social grant system, which has acted to reduce poverty and counter increases in inequality associated with recent ...
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Exact Configuration of Poverty,Inequality and Polarization Trends in the Distribution of well-being in Cameroon
... of poverty, inequality and polarization trends using Cameroon household surveys collected before and during the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) ...and poverty lines, with the monetary ...
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Veteran Poverty Trends
... • ACS data are used to develop statistically valid samples of veterans. • The universe for this analysis is the civilian population 17 years and older living in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. • The Census Bureau uses dollar ...
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Trends in the Level and Distribution of Income Support
... deep poverty from 1984 to 2004 arose entirely from growth in the number of very poor disabled families and childless families—the fractions in all other three groups ...deep poverty also represents a ...
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Income Distribution Policies For Faster Poverty Reduction
... in poverty, positive one, ...in income distribution does not equal the change in poverty (see Datt and Ravallion, ...inequality trends will continue to reduce the poverty ...
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Current poverty and income distribution in the context of South African history
... generate income (dividends and land ...asset income does not contribute much to aggregate black ...important income source for those who are poorly linked to the labour ...the distribution ...
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Economic growth, income distribution, and poverty in Poland during transition
... on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of particular interest because its data sources allow for a relatively detailed analysis of such developments, but also because of ...
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Smallholder income and land distribution in Africa: implications for poverty reduction strategies
... non-farm income shares are below 40% even for the households in the bottom land quartile; and that because of this, there is a strong relationship between access to land and household income, particularly ...
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Trends in the German income distribution : 2005/06 to 2010/11
... the distribution of equivalent incomes we construct a distribution that would result if we keep everything as in 2005/2006 but change the joint distribution of the list of household characteristics ...
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Accounting for income distribution trends: A density function decomposition approach
... the income distribution using subgroup decompositions of the income density ...the income distribution (using graphs), rather than focusing on a specific feature such as dispersion, and ...
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Linkages, Poverty and Income Distribution
... The above depiction of a dynamic rural economy fuelled by agricultural growth draws empmcal support from development records In East Asia (particularly Japan and Tatwan), the relattvely [r] ...
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Trends in the distribution of income in Australia
... of income inequality is that they can overstate or understate the distribution of consumption possibilities by ignoring household wealth, as both income and wealth contribute to households’ capacity ...
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Poverty and the distribution of income in Northern Ireland
... This paper examines the relationships between poverty and the distribution of income i n Northern Ireland, a region where — using a common poverty line — the incidence of poverty is m[r] ...
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Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty: A Review
... reduce poverty, the orientation of the growth process is also ...a poverty oriented growth ...and poverty, both in urban and rural ...that poverty increased both in town and in the ...
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Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty: A Review
... reducing poverty. How strong a poverty-reducing effect growth has, depends on what happens to income distribution; there is no constant relationship between growth and changes in ...improved ...
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Income Distribution and Poverty in the Republic of Haiti
... capita income, by not making allowance for economies of scale (partly because of its tacit ethical stance of neutrality to demographic composition), may be inflating the needs of certain household members and ...
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