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Impact of Self Help Groups on the food security and non-food consumption of weaker sections of the society
Swamy, Vighneswara; B.K., Tulasimala - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Microfinance across the globe is being practiced as a tool to mitigate poverty and chiefly as an empowerment tool to uplift the downtrodden. The paper has uniquely established that Self Help Groups in India have been significantly successful in achieving the objective of economic development of...
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Rapid urbanization, employment crisis and poverty in African LDCs:A new development strategy and aid policy
Herrmann, Michael; Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to come. At the turn of the millennium 75% of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and...
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Namibia; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This Selected Issues paper analyzes unemployment and education in Namibia. Using the Afrobarometer Project survey data …
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Calorie demand and labour productivity in Peru: evidence from the National Household Survey 1998 - 2002
Lavado, Pablo; Gallegos, José - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2005
2002 National Household Survey (ENAHO), we first estimate an extended Mincer equation using the two-step Heckman procedure …
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Poverty and household demographic behaviour in Pakistan - insights from PLM survey 1979
Mohammad, Irfan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1985
differentials are discussed in the third section. Although the population, labour force and migration (PLM) survey serves as major …
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An introduction to the 1998-99 Pakistan socioeconomic survey (PSES)
G. M., Arif; Syed, Mubashir Ali; Nasir, Zafar Mueen; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
This brief paper is quite focused. It describes the methodology and scope of the household survey carried out by the … household survey, followed by the design of the survey as proposed in the MIMAP project. The modified design is presented in … the survey are discussed respectively in Sections 9 and 10. The sample characteristics are reported in the last section. …
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Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty: A Review
Bigsten, Arne; Levin, Jorgen - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001
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The Small and Medium Enterprises and Poverty in Pakistan: An Empirical Analysis
Ali, Sharafat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are considered to play an important role in the economic growth, employment generation and poverty alleviation in the economy. The annual time series data is used for examination of impact of SMEs on poverty in Pakistan for the period of 1972-2008. The study...
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A community-based framework for poverty alleviation: the case of post-revolution Egypt
Abdel-Baki, Monal - In: International Journal of Social Economics 39 (2012) January, pp. 81-96
Purpose – As with many rapidly growing developing nations that suffer from inequity and political oppression, popular rebellion has long been likely in Egypt. As uprisings burgeoned in 2008 and it became especially evident that a popular revolution was imminent, which made it crucial to detect...
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Ãndice Global del Hambre 2011: el Desafío del Hambre: Domar los picos y la Volatilidad Excesiva de los Precios de los Alimentos
von Grebmer, Klaus; Torero, Maximo; Olofinbiyi, Tolulope; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
IEl Ãndice Global del Hambre (GHI) de este año muestra que el hambre global ha disminuido desde 1990 –pero no en forma dramática–y permanece en un nivel que se puede considerar como “serioâ€. Los puntajes del GHI varían ampliamente entre los diferentes países y regiones. Los...
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