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The paper explores different applications of the Shapley value for either inequality or poverty measures. We first … investigate the problem of source decomposition of inequality measures, the so-called additive income sources inequality games … income sources inequality games provide dual results compared with Chantreuil and Trannoy's ones. We also investigate the …
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L’objectif principal de la Stratégie de croissance accélérée (SCA) du Sénégal est d’accroître le rythme de la croissance de l’économie en la rendant profitable aux pauvres. Or dans toute économie, il existe une relation entre la croissance économique, la réduction de la...
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source on inequality in total income. This note extends the methodology to take into account income variability. …
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multidimensional poverty within and between sub-groups of population, and to determine the dimensions that tend to increase inequality … in poverty. The goal of this article is double. Firstly, we present the combined methodology to study the inequality in …
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In most welfare analyses, especially in the literature on normative inequality measurement, it is a commonplace to …
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Income variablity reduces social welfare if individuals are risk averse, and it is likely to increase inequality if … poorer households are more vulnerable to shocks. Using a simple method to estimate risk-adjusted measures of inequality and … inequality than on welfare. This is because apart from its impact on inequality, risk reduces the certainty equivalent income of …
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increase in inequality induces an increase in environmental standard. In the second model, the environmental standard is chosen … by a corrupt bureaucrat. In that model, while the impact of an increase in inequality on the environmental standard is …
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and inequality. We show how, when the range of possible poverty lines is unbounded above, a robust ranking of absolute … as a robust ranking of inequality for any order of stochastic dominance. This interpretation is also valid when the … maximum poverty line is bounded and for certain orders of stochastic dominance, so long as social welfare and inequality …
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This paper proposes techniques to test for whether growth has been pro-poor. We first review different definitions of pro-poorness and argue for the use of methods that can generate results that are robust over classes of pro-poor measures and ranges of poverty lines. We then provide statistical...
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This paper develops criteria for a new concept of restricted inequality dominance and show how they relate to criteria … for comparing relative poverty. The results warn against the use of some popular indices of inequality.\ They do, however … poverty and restricted inequality. We also illustrate graphically how the new criteria of restricted inequality dominance …
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