Urban Poverty in Developed Countries - Brandolini, Cipollone - 2003 () Citation Context ...ities, from 44 percent in 1959 to 78 percent in 2000. Although the incidence of urban poverty rose, the overall poverty rate declined, because urban poverty rates remained much lower than rural ones (=...
This article investigates the interplay between the exchange rate pressure (ERP), which is a proxy for export demand and foreign financial flows shocks, and fiscal redistribution in influencing poverty in developing countries. The analysis relies on an unbalanced panel dataset containing 90 developing ...
The government attaches importance of the efforts to relieve poverty through education, as well as to reduce the educational disparities between urban and rural regions. By 2020, the completion rate of nine-year compulsory education in China reached 95 percent due to the efforts of the government....
These nations have a higher povertyrate than the developed countries across the World. This is because a significant segment of people in these countries do not have access to better-earning opportunities and income and cannot meet the basic needs of life. A more substantial segment of these ...
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One positive consequence of mobility has been a better use of individual aptitude. This has been aided by the expansion of educational opportunities in modern industrial nations. On the negative side, a high rate of vertical mobility may produce individual and societalanomie(a term coined by the ...
(Christiaensen and Todo, 2017; Christiaensen et al., 2013), the role of large cities is essential for poverty reduction in ethnic regions (Huang and Han, 2015). Lastly, the flow of rural labor can effectively reduce...
This pragmatic approach is valuable and can be replicated in other developing countries, Xia said. "China is a large country and when we started implementing the targeted poverty reduction policy, our poor population rate was about 10 percent, which means quite a huge number," Xia noted. ...
As of 2024, the states with the highest poverty rates were Louisiana (19.60%), Mississippi (19.40%), New Mexico (18.40%), West Virginia (16.80%), and Kentucky (16.50%). The District of Columbia's poverty rate is 16.50%.17 Can Poverty Be Solved?
The retention rate in nine-year compulsory education rose from 93.8 percent to 95.5 percent. We saw to it that compulsory education was provided as an overall state responsibility; and we guided and regulated the development of private schools. The burden on students in compulsory education was ...