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Terrorism→Poverty→Road Building: Risk Analysis of the Underlying Logic of the CPEC Infrastructure
Can the infrastructure capacity, which is represented by road building, thoroughly eliminate the threat of terrorism faced by the Belt and Road...
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Channels Through Which Financial Inclusion Reduces Poverty, What is the Role of 4IR, Digital Technologies in This Process?
The chapter's goal is to demonstrate how financial inclusion can contribute to the eradication of poverty. To determine the many ways financial...
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Poverty and Risk: Variation Among People and Over Time
Previous chapters focused on the total or average level of each thing, for individuals and communities, introducing the economic principles used to...
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Trade Liberalization and Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria: The Complementary Role of Institutions
This paper investigates the response of poverty to shocks in trade liberalization and the impacts of the latter and its complement on the former in...
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Religious orientation and poverty in Ghana: associations and explanations
The relationship between religious orientation and poverty has not been given adequate attention in the literature. The major objective of this study...
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Estimating poverty and vulnerability to monetary and non-monetary poverty: the case of Vietnam
Drawing on three-wave panel data from the Vietnam Housing Living Standard Surveys (VHLSS) 2010, 2012, and 2014 and employing a fuzzy method, this...
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The Impacts of Unbalanced Development on Rural Multidimensional Poverty
We will try to expand the poverty research topic from one dimension to multiple dimensions, from absolute poverty to relative poverty, with...
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Policies to Alleviate Energy Poverty: From Fundamental Concepts to a Practical Framework in the New Era
Currently, energy poverty has gained increasing attention from communities around the world. A growing body of literature has attempted to advance...
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Poverty in Africa and Attainment of the Millennium Development Goal
Global povertypoverty which has been a major challenge to human development and economic growth has been found to be most extreme in develo**...
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Affordable Housing and Poverty
Housing is related to population trends, which supposedly occur independently of government. On the other hand, housing stock is assumed to be a...
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Policies to Alleviate Energy Poverty in the Cooking Sector in India
Clean energy plays an important role in the eradication of energy poverty. India faces acute energy poverty which impacts income poverty as the poor...
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The Decomposition of Income Growth and Income Inequality on Rural Poverty
This chapter discusses the changes in China's rural poverty index since the reform and opening up, especially the impact of income growth and...
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Development of Inclusive Finance in China
Inclusive finance practices in China began in the 1990s, when microfinance was introduced as a poverty alleviation concept and a credit technology....
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Poverty, Inequality, and Growth: Trends, Policies, and Controversies
Reducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), approved by...
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Poverty alleviation strategies under informality: evidence for Latin America
Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that those strategies need to be...
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Decentralized provision of disaster aid: aid fragmentation and the poverty implications
Despite large-scale humanitarian aid, the headcount poverty rate continued to rise after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Indonesia. Drawing on the...
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Inequality of Opportunity, Economic Development, and Poverty
Traditionally, countries’ level of development has been measured by the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, in the last decades, the use of this...
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Rural Digital Financial Inclusion and Poverty Reduction: Asymmetry and Performance Evaluation
This paper comprehensively considers the development of digital financial inclusion and rural finance, calculates the rural digital financial...
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The Impact of Financial Inclusion on Poverty from the Classical Theory of Poverty in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
This chapter seeks to discuss the impact of financial inclusion on poverty in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution from the classical...
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Introduction to Digital Financial Inclusion: Revisiting Poverty Theories in the Context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The convergence of financial services and digital technology has resulted in the formation of a significant new development paradigm to expand access...