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recovery. This recovery has helped to growth to absolutely pro-poor and thus, to continue to reduce poverty in this region of …
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or that of the change in inequality on poverty. During the last few years, there was a growing interest to perform such … Goal (MDG, henceforth), that is to cut poverty by half. As is illustrated in this paper, estimated poverty changes may be … a new numerical method to allow to estimate accurately the impact of distributive changes on poverty. …
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employment, poverty and inequality. To evaluate impacts on poverty and inequality, we use a CGE Top Down approach. The paper … unemployment as well as a fall of poverty for each population groups. …
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This paper explores the link between poverty and inequality through an analysis of the poverty impact of changes in … empirical linkages between poverty, growth and inequality. It might also help design policies to improve both equity and welfare … as the choice of inequality and poverty aversion parameters, and that of the poverty line). The elasticities are also …
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the dynamic of inequality, polarization and progressivity of the fiscal system. The results of this study confirm the … effectiveness of governmental redistributive mechanism to decrease inequality and polarization significantly and to maintain the …
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poverty lines. We then provide statistical procedures that rely on the use of sample data to infer whether growth has been pro …
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equilibrium (CGE) models used in poverty and inequality analysis are static in nature. The inability of this kind of model to … account for growth (accumulation) effects makes them inadequate for long run analysis of the poverty and inequality impacts of … and inequality through time. Changes in poverty are then decomposed into growth and distribution components in order to …
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The paper employs an integrated CGE-microsimulation approach to analyze the poverty effects of tariff reduction. The … results indicate that the tariff cuts implemented between 1994 and 2000 were generally poverty-reducing, primarily through the … (NCR), where poverty incidence is already lowest, than in other areas, especially rural, where poverty incidence is highest …
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In this paper we provide a set of rules that can be used to check poverty or inequality dominance using discrete data …
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inequality. We show inter alia, how, when the range of possible poverty lines is unbounded above, a robust ranking of absolute …This paper extends the previous literature on the ethical links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare and … poverty may be interpreted as a robust ranking of social welfare, and a robust ranking of relative poverty may be intepreted …
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