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A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2021
This paper is a review of recent developments of parametric and non-parametric approaches to decompose inequality by subgroups, income sources, causal factors and other unit characteristics. Different methods of decomposing changes in poverty into growth, redistribution, poverty standard and...
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The long-term evolution of income inequality and poverty in China
Luo, Chuliang; Li, Shi; Sicular, Terry - 2018
By using the five waves of the China Household Income Project surveys conducted during 1988-2013, this paper investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a small amount. The main reason for the rise in income...
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Decomposing the Bonferroni inequality index by subgroups : shapley value and balance of inequality
Giorgi, Giovanni M.; Guandalini, Alessio - In: Econometrics : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-16
inequality index. We also discuss a comparison with the Gini concentration index and highlight interesting properties of the … Bonferroni index. …
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A new inequality-sensitive multidimensional deprivation index (MDI) for dichotomous variables
Espinoza-Delgado, José; Silber, Jacques - 2021
In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … indicators using a counting approach. The resulting multidimensional deprivation index, or MDI for short, also has a nice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012601360
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Spatial and Inter-Temporal Sources of Poverty, Inequality and Gender Disparities in Cameroon : A Regression-Based Decomposition Analysis
Epo, Boniface Ngah; Baye, Francis Menjo; Teme Angele … - 2018
This study applies the regression-based inequality decomposition technique to explain poverty and inequality trends in Cameroon. We also identify gender related factors which explain income disparities and discrimination based on the 2001 and 2007 Cameroon household consumption surveys. The...
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Spatial Income Inequality in India, 1993-2011 : A District Level Decomposition
Azam, Mehtabul - 2016
Using nationally representative household survey data, and district and state as two levels of aggregation, we examine role of individual and geographical factors in determining the level and the change in income inequality in India. We find that between-state income differences account for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993930
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Spatial Income Inequality in India, 1993-2011 : A District Level Decomposition
Azam, Mehtabul - 2016
Using nationally representative household survey data, and district and state as two levels of aggregation, we examine role of individual and geographical factors in determining the level and the change in income inequality in India. We find that between-state income differences account for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995001
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Principles and practicalities for measuring child poverty in the rich countries
Corak, Miles (contributor) - 2005
This paper has three objectives. The first is to discuss the major issues involved in defining and measuring child poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are stated. The second objective is to take stock of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002764242
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When unstable, growth is less pro-poor
Guillaumont, Patrick; Korachais, Catherine - 2010
Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662270
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Child deprivation and income poverty in Ghana
Kofinti, Raymond Elikplim; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2015
This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The first-order dominance methodology was used to examine five dimensions of deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the...
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