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. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both … absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being robust to whether pro-poor judgements should be absolute or relative, the … ranges of absolute and relative poverty lines. The test is applied to distributional changes in five middle- and four lower …
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Individual well-being depends not only on income but also on other dimensions of life, such as health, the quality of social relations and of the environment, employment, and job satisfaction. In this chapter we survey the economic literature on how to construct such overall measures of...
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Raising the minimum wage in developing countries could increase or decrease poverty, depending on labor market … poor households. Whether raising minimum wages reduces poverty depends not only on whether formal sector workers lose jobs …
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A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most … into and out of poverty should be the main focus of anti-poverty policies. Understanding the characteristics of the … persistently poor, and the circumstances and mechanisms associated with entry into and exit from poverty, can help to inform …
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Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities …. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across … particularly affected. A comprehensive approach is required to ensure an effective transition out of poverty and social exclusion …
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, affordability of energy among the poorest should receive increasing attention. Measures of fuel poverty and deprivation with respect …
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Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
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remedy in the later phase of the cycle. Poverty, inequality, exclusion and social protection indicators are needed to address …
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