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poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …
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experience a higher degree of income poverty and costs in terms of people’s reduced likelihood of being able to access medical or …
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. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …
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likely effects on poverty, inequality, and economic mobility. While poverty has declined, inequality has remained relatively … high and stable over nearly four decades. In this paper, for the first time, we examine poverty and inequality in a dynamic …. Focusing on the dynamics of poverty, we distinguish between short- and long-term poor and between chronic and transient poverty …
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in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …
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between-district inequalities to national inequality and examines the relationship between household poverty and inequality … a significant effect on household poverty, but with varying signs. We surmise that the variation in signs is as a result … of the state of economic activity and factors that affect both poverty and inequality. …
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A poverty reduction failure index is a measure of the extent of inability of a society to reduce its poverty level …. This paper develops an ordering for ranking alternative income distributions in terms of poverty reduction failures. The … ordering can be easily implemented by using the generalized Lorenz or the Three I's of poverty (TIP) curve dominance criterion …
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The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty in the context of … 1964–2011. The regression model encompassing the impact of economic growth and inequality on poverty reflects that a 1 …% increase in income while keeping the distribution constant reduces poverty around 0.162% in rural, 0.256% in urban, 0.471% in …
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This chapter reviews definitional issues that arise in assessing the extent of, and change in, poverty in western … industrialized countries, including the choice of resource, level of poverty line and appropriate adjustments for the size and type … market income poverty can have very different poverty rates once taxes and transfers have been received. Cross …
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inequality. Finally, we examine global poverty, which is identified through the lower end of the global distribution. …
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