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Poverty reduction strategies : a comparative study applied to empirical research

Kircher, Philipp Albert Theodor - 2002

Poverty remains one of the greatest problems of our time, causing starvation and humiliation in poor countries and contributing to problems of conflict, migration and environmental degradation effecting also richer countries. This study provides a systematical analysis of today's donor...

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Empirical analysis of determinants, distribution and dynamics of poverty

Harttgen, Kenneth - 2007 - 1. Aufl.

Poverty and inequality persist in many dimensions in the developing world. In order to understand the determinants of poverty and its distribution between and within countries, it is necessary to know its dimensions and the channels through which poverty and inequality affect human well-being....

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Empirical analysis of poverty dynamics : with case studies from sub-Saharan Africa

Günther, Isabel - 2007

The empirical analysis of poverty over time is still severely constrained by the available survey data in developing … national) as well as micro-level (or household) poverty dynamics. The proposed methods are applied to survey data from various … sub-Saharan African countries. As these countries do not only have the most limited economic survey data but also show the …

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Measurement of poverty, undernutrition and child mortality

Misselhorn, Mark - 2008 - 1. Aufl.

Although the world has seen a strong increase in global incomes in the last two decades and consequently a decline in global poverty rates, the number of persons living in absolute poverty remains on unacceptably high levels. Besides rising incomes can not distract from the fact that resources...

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Growth, poverty and inequality dynamics : four empirical essays at the macro and micro level

Weisbrod, Julian - 2008 - 1. Aufl.

Since the Second World War the world has seen an economic growth spurt unprecedented in history. Economic growth is a necessary but not sufficient condition for improving human development, or in other words, economic growth is an important pre-requisite for the ultimate goal of human...