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Relative deprivation, reference groups and the assessment of standard of living
Silber, Jacques; Verme, Paolo - In: Economic Systems 36 (2012) 1, pp. 31-45
This paper proposes two new indices of relative deprivation, derived from an extension of the concept of generalized Gini to the measurement of distributional change. Population- and income-weighted relative deprivation indices are then defined and, using panel data from the Consortium of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010571867
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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2019
The paper reviews 49 empirical studies that estimate the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A review of the empirical models used by these studies and a meta-analysis of 762 separate results collected from them are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 17 major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004820
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Human development thresholds for inclusive mobile banking in developing countries
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: African journal of science, technology, innovation & … 10 (2018) 6, pp. 735-744
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259696
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Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty and inequality
Hlásny, Vladimír; Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - In: Review of income and wealth 68 (2022) 4, pp. 970-1006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013479742
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the new poor in Africa : the straw that broke the camel's back
Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice - In: Forum for social economics 52 (2023) 2, pp. 143-154
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Inside inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt : facts and perceptions across people, time, and space
Verme, Paolo - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394002
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A Multiple Correspondence Analysis Approach to the Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty in Morocco, 2001-2007
Ezzrari, Abdeljaouad - 2012
The measurement of multidimensional poverty has been advocated by most welfare scholars and is experiencing a growth in … one of the least explored approaches-Multiple Correspondence Analysis-to assess multidimensional poverty in Morocco … poverty: it generates a matrix of “weights” based on the variance-covariance matrix of all welfare dimensions selected and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395372
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Who is Deprived? Who Feels Deprived? : Labor Deprivation, Youth and Gender in Morocco
Serajuddin, Umar - 2012
One of the recurrent explanations of the Arab spring is that governments were disconnected from their populations and that public policies were simply not in line with people's sentiments and expectations. This paper provides a methodology to better understand how objective conditions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395375
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Estimating Quarterly Poverty Rates Using Labor Force Surveys : A Primer
Douidich, Mohamed - 2013
The paper shows how Labor Force Surveys can be used effectively to estimate poverty rates using Household Expenditure … 2007), the paper estimates quarterly poverty rates for the period 2001-2010 by imputing household expenditures into the … Labor Force Surveys. The results are encouraging. The methodology is able to accurately reproduce official poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395749
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Individual Diversity and the Gini Decomposition
Ceriani, Lidia - 2014
The paper defines the Gini index as the sum of individual contributions where individual contributions are interpreted as the degree of diversity of each individual from all other members of society. Among various possible forms of individual contributions to the Gini found in the literature,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396047