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(english) The aim of this paper is to realize an in-depth analysis of the growth and poverty interactions in Syria …-2004 period growth was not equitable at both national and regional levels. When the objective of halving poverty in 2015 is used … other characteristic of the Syrian growth and poverty performance is the widening of the gap between urban and rural areas …
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such biases. As an empirical illustration we use the case of Burkina Faso and the growth incidence curve and poverty change …
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Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were biased due to the neglect of some important methodological issues …. This led to the so-called ‘Burkinabè Growth-Poverty-Paradox’, i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but almost … constant poverty. We estimate that poverty significantly decreased between 1994 and 2003 at least on the national level, i …
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(english) This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on … anti-poverty targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. In … terms of P2, the most popular axiomatically valid poverty indicator, moving from 1.30, the level reached under subsidies, to …
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Using a calibrated overlapping generations model we quantify the welfare gains of an age dependent income tax. Agents face uncertainty regarding future abilities and can by saving transfer consumption across periods. The welfare gain of switching from an age-independent to an age-dependent...
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(English) How has poverty changed during the 1997-99 period, when the Peruvian economic performance deteriorated … on cross-section comparisons of poverty indicators. In this paper we extend the analysis first by examining the … robustness of these kind of comparisons by considering sampling errors and stochastic dominance and second, by analyzing poverty …
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(english) Because of the lack of panel data there have been few studies on poverty dynamics in developing countries … objective is to identify the general and specific characteristics of chronic and transient poverty. We measure the importance of … poverty transitions, as well as the characteristics of the temporarily and the chronically poor, with respect to those of non …
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In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective analogue of the objective income concept and includes...
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We impose a horizontal equity restriction on the problem of finding the optimal utilitarian tax mix. The horizontal equity constraint requires that individuals with the same ability have to pay the same amount of taxes regardless of their preferences for leisure. Contrary to normal findings, we...
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. The results confirm the usefulness of this class of models, which permit the computation of poverty and inequality …
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