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-oriented analysis. This paper examines empirical strategies to measure poverty and inequality in multiple domains, concentrating on two …
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This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a …
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no official definition of energy poverty (EP). The purpose of this study is to provide the reader with a set of … indicators to fill this gap. We present a range of poverty measures which estimate that between 5 and 20 per cent of households …
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The paper provides an evaluation of the redistribution effects stemming from the changes to the personal income tax introduced in the last decade. The analysis confirms that between 1989 and 2001 the net average tax rate increased for all taxpayers and, above all, for one-earner couples. The...
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This paper examines the relationship among poverty, economic growth, and inequality by decomposing poverty changes at … understand the relationships while accounting for the nature of growth. Moreover, the poverty elasticity of output growth was … estimated using regional-level data in 2003, 2006, and 2009. We learned that while the rate of growth matters a lot in poverty …
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This paper aims to explore the determinants of household income and expenditure growth, and assess whether the poor are benefiting from economic development. Using regression analysis, five factors were examined: (1) location of the household, (2) access to infrastructure, (3) changes in rice...
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each member country on the basis of national indicators; EU-wide estimates of inequality and poverty play no role. Yet this … methodological requirements of this evaluative exercise, and provides the first estimates of inequality and poverty in the enlarged …
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The article reviews trends in population and poverty, compares population and development between the Philippines and … Thailand over the last 40 years, discusses the theoretical links between population and poverty as well as the empirical … reducing poverty and perhaps inequality, as well as better fertility management--particularly among the poor--aimed at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005092763
This paper presents a few of the latest statistics on income poverty, growth, and inequality, and makes a case about … the need not only to monitor current poverty, but also to reduce future poverty. An assessment of the trends in household … vulnerability to income poverty is made for the years 2000, 2003, and 2006. Measurement of household vulnerability is based on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008577426
The article reviews trends in population and poverty, compares population and development between the Philippines and … Thailand over the last 40 years, discusses the theoretical links between population and poverty as well as the empirical … reducing poverty and perhaps inequality, as well as better fertility management--particularly among the poor--aimed at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184869