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Subjective poverty lines and quality life potential (QLP)in Spain. An application from the EPF 1990-91
Goerlich Gisbert, Francisco José; Pinilla Pallejà, Rafael - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2004) 5, pp. 159-170
estimation. The QLP indicator will be calculated using both,a subjective poverty line and a conventional relative poverty line …The Quality Life Potential (QLP)is a new well-being measure introduced in Pinilla and Goerlich (2004).The QLP combines … the QLP,we need to choose a poverty line measure.The best choice would probably be a subjective poverty line (SPL)but this …
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Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the 20th Century Title: Progreso, pobreza y exclusión: Una historia económica de América Latina en el siglo...
Thorp, Rosemary - Inter-American Development Bank
What did the Latin American economies achieve in the course of a hundred years and how has this affected standards of living? This comprehensive history examines the political and economic forces that have shaped Latin America's development process.Abstract: Esta historia económica revisa las...
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Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the 20th Century Title: Progreso, pobreza y exclusión: Una historia económica de América Latina en el siglo...
Thorp, Rosemary - Inter-American Development Bank
What did the Latin American economies achieve in the course of a hundred years and how has this affected standards of living? This comprehensive history examines the political and economic forces that have shaped Latin America's development process.Abstract: Esta historia económica revisa las...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943557
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Per capita income and quality life potencial (QLP) in Spain (1981-1999)
Goerlich Gisbert, Francisco José; Pinilla Pallejà, Rafael - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2004) 4, pp. 53-74
The Quality Life Potential, QLP is a new well-being measure. The QLP combines income above social poverty line with … feasibility and relevance of QLP estimation with available statistical data. Furthermore, the estimated QLP will be compared to …. The QLP will be derived to a simple functional relation. The operative methodology to computing QLP will be specified and …
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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
value judgment that inequality and insecurity do not matter, the paper demonstrates that a better measure of “command over …
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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
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Algunas consideraciones analíticas sobre el estándar de vida
Gamboa, Luis Fernando; Cortés, Darwin; Gonzáles, … - In: REVISTA DE ECONOMÍA DEL ROSARIO (2000)
El presente documento muestra las dificultades teóricas de la identificación del bienestar individual y las ventajas de … indicadores de estándar de vida. Se discuten el concepto de bienestar individual, tal como se concibe en la teoría económica …
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Needs and Wants: What is Social Progress and How Should it be Measured
Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter, Lars Osberg has the daunting task of examining the conceptual issues involved in defining and measuring social progress. As he highlights in his introduction, while much had been made of the fact that Canada in 2000 earned first place in the United Nations' Human Development...
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Pobreza, distribución y capital humano de Bogotá 2003: Evidencia empírica de la hipótesis de Juan Luis Londoño
Osorio, Felipe Barrera - FEDESARROLLO - 2004
Este trabajo presenta evidencia empírica entorno a la hipótesis de Londoño usando datos recientes de la Encuesta de Calidad de Vida 2003, producida por el DANE. En concreto, se utilizan los datos por hogares en 19 localidades de Bogotá para analizar la relación entre tres formas de capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769561
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Indicators of inequality and poverty
Subramanian, S. - 2004
This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … of income inequality, deals with preliminary concepts and definitions; a visual representation of inequality (the Lorenz … curve); real-valued indices of inequality; properties of inequality indices; some specific inequality measures; and the …
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