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A Dual-Regime Utility Model for Poverty Analysis
Biancotti, Claudia - Banca d'Italia - 2006
This paper offers a micro-founded general definition of poverty set in the context of utility theory. Poverty and non-poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113538
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On applying synthetic indices of multidimensional well-being: health and income inequalities in selected EU countries
Brandolini, Andrea - Banca d'Italia - 2008
-oriented analysis. This paper examines empirical strategies to measure poverty and inequality in multiple domains, concentrating on two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005609386
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Economic Shocks, Impoverishment and Poverty-Related Mortality during the Eastern European Transition.
Paniccia, R - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1997
This paper aims to assess the impact that the impoverishment process has had on IPD health dynamics and micronutrient-related morbidity via the changes which have occurred in food consumption in terms of average intake, its ditribution and the quality of diets.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005625501
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Investors' risk attitude and risky behavior: a Bayesian approach with imperfect information
Iezzi, Stefano - Banca d'Italia - 2008
In a choice model of risky assets the role of risk aversion is analyzed. The measure of risk preference comes from a direct subjective survey question and it is considered as an imperfect information about the true risk attitude of investors. Misclassification between the true and the observed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005111556
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Development, Aid and Conflict. Reflexion form the Case of Rwanda.
Uvin, P. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1996
Rwanda's genocide was the extreme outcome of the failure of development model that was based on ethnic, regional and social exclusion; that increased deprivation,humiliation and vulnerability of the poor, that allowd state-instigated recism and discrimination to continue unabated, tha was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005475022
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Multidimensional poverty and inequality
Aaberge, Rolf; Brandolini, Andrea - Banca d'Italia - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099670
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Household over-indebtedness: definition and measurement with Italian data
D'Alessio, Giovanni; Iezzi, Stefano - Banca d'Italia - 2013
exclusion and poverty. The aim of this paper is to present and analyze the main measures of over-indebtedness used in the … of over-indebtedness are subsequently compared with the measures of poverty in order to disentangle the relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105123
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Reducing Poverty and Inequality in India: Has Liberalization Helped?.
Jha, R. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2000
This study examines the empirical relationship among inequality, poverty and economic growth in India. Using data on …, the Gini coefficient and three popular measures of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005474999
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Inequality and Transformation of Social Structures in Transitional Economies.
Mikhalev, V. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2000
The transition to a market economy in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union has been associated with greater inequality and social stratification. This paper prepared within the UNU/WIDER project on "Income Distribution and Social Structure during the Transition' analyses trends in social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661044
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Revisiting poverty and welfare dominance
Tomat, Gian Maria - Banca d'Italia - 2007
The paper reviews the theory of the measurement of poverty. The axiomatic theory is described and the axiomatic … properties of poverty indexes are related to assumptions on the functional form of the poverty index function. The notion of … poverty ordering is then introduced and followed by a review of the relations between the poverty orderings than can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113654