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The Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being: Estimates for Canada, 1999 and 2005

Sharpe, Andrew; Murray, Alexander; Evans, Benjamin; … - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2011

household’s total command over economic resources in the six years between 1999 and 2005. Although inequality in economic well …

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New Estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being for Selected OECD Countries, 1981 - 2007

Sharpe, Andrew; Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality, and economic security) for 14 OECD countries for the 1980-2007 period. It finds that in 2007 Norway had the highest level of economic...

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Measuring Economic Security in Insecure Times: New Perspectives, New Events, and the Index of Economic Well-being

Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

This report has two main objectives. The first is to outline the development of the methodology for the measurement of economic security in the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and to provide updated estimates of the Index of Economic Security over the 1980-2007 period for seven developed...

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The Economic Crises Through the Lens of Economic Well-being

Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-François - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

This report looks at how the economic crisis has unfolded in Canada and what will be the impacts on economic wellbeing. The shortfall is estimated to be approximately $12,000 ($2007) per capita. In other words, given no economic crisis, GDP per capita in Canada would have likely been $1,736...

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New Estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being for Canada and the Provinces, 1981 - 2008

Sharpe, Andrew; Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality and economic security) for Canada and the provinces for the 1981-2008 period. It finds that the IEWB advanced at a 1.20 per cent average...

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Concepts and Operationalization of Pro-Poor Growth

Negre, Mario - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it should dispropo

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Living Standards Domain of the Canadian Index of Wellbeing

Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-François - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

, but the reductions were not nearly as large as the increase in wealth inequality. The unemployment rate is down to a …

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Income, Income Inequality, and Health: Evidence from China

Li, Hongbin; Zhu, Yi - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the … inverted-U association between self-reported health status and income inequality, which suggests that high inequality in a … community poses threats to health. We also find that high inequality increases the probability of health-compromising behavior …

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Indicators of Inequality and Poverty

Subramanian, S. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2004

This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … of income inequality, deals with preliminary concepts and definitions; a visual representation of inequality (the Lorenz … curve); real-valued indices of inequality; properties of inequality indices; some specific inequality measures; and the …

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Changes in the Distribution of Wealth in China 1995-2002

Li, Shi; Zhao, Renwei - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

This paper investigates some major changes in the wealth distribution in China using the data from two national household surveys conducted in 1995 and 2002. The surveys collected rich information on household wealth and its components, enabling a detailed analysis of changes in wealth...

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