Responsible Investment: A force for poverty alleviation [PDF]
, 2008 The unprecedented turmoil in the world's financial markets has resulted in a significant loss of trust in the global financial system. Financial institutions and the market as a whole have been criticised for short-termism, for lacking transparency, and ...
Sullivan, Rory, Vines Fiestas, Helena
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Influence of Key Health Related Indicators on Adult Mortality: Result from UN Member Countries
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2018 Background: Adult mortality is associated with different demographic and behavioral risk factors including approaches to health care financing.
Chhabi Lal RANABHAT +6 more
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Communication Strategy Poverty Alleviation in Indonesia 2012-2014 [PDF]
, 2012 Although government data indicate a decline in poverty levels, public criticism of poverty alleviation programmes in Indonesia remains strong. This dissatisfaction arises from a gap between public expectations and the actual achievements of these ...
(TNP2K), T. (Tim Nasional Percepatan Penanggulangan Kemiskinan)
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THE INFLUENCE OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIA
International Studies Journal, 2022 This work observes the influence of poverty alleviation programs on economic development evidence from Nigeria. Poverty alleviation is a serious matter that requires serious attention.
Benedict Azu, Ijieh Sunday Okubor
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Impact of government assistance on the relative deprivation of poor households’ consumption: Policy evaluation based on the targeted poverty alleviation program [PDF]
Ziyuan Kexue[Objective] The targeted poverty alleviation program has, overall, elevated the social welfare of impoverished households. However, the role of the targeted poverty alleviation program plays in improving households’ relative welfare, such as relative ...
RAO Yulei, CHEN Diqiang, FEI Zheheng
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The Cost of Poverty Alleviation Transfer Programs: A Comparative Analysis of Three Programs in Latin America [PDF]
A common criticism of antipoverty programs is that the high share of administrative (nontransfer) costs substantially reduces their effectiveness. Yet, there is surprisingly little rigorous empirical evidence on program costs.
Natàlia Caldés +2 more
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Poverty Alleviation: The Case of Croatia
, 2017 In economic literature, poverty is usually defined as the inability to satisfy basic material needs, particularly adequate nutrition, but also ensuring satisfactory housing, means of production and other assets. The goal of the chapter is to present the current situation of poverty in Croatia with the intention to identify measures for the enhancement ...
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Poverty alleviation through geographic targeting : how much does disaggregation help? [PDF]
Using recently completed"poverty maps"for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined subgroups of the population according to their relative poverty ...
Yin, Wesley +4 more
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The challenging arithmetic of poverty in Bangladesh [PDF]
The arithmetic of poverty in Bangladesh is challenging from a number of perspectives. Counting Bangladesh's poor is difficult to do with seemingly tolerable precision, even just to get some idea of whether recent efforts to alleviate poverty have ...
Ravallion, Martin
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Social security, income taxation and poverty alleviation [PDF]
In this paper I consider the normative arguments that justify a public social security system as a redistributive device when goverment is concerned with individual utility and poverty. Redistribution can be done using social security, income taxation or
Darío Maldonado
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