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Standard official measures of economic well-being are based on money income. The general consensus is that such measures are seriously flawed because they ignore several crucial determinants of well-being. We examine two such determinants-household wealth and public consumption-in the context of...
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We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality …, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005, which is followed by falling inequality thereafter. Using an … inequality decomposition technique, we show that the rising inequality between 1991 and 2005 was, for the most part, driven by …
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poor growth, then summarizing the linkages between inequality, poverty, and pro poor growth, before proceeding to analyze …Pro Poor Growth has become a central concern to achieve sustainable poverty reduction in developing countries. Despite …
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Using PSID data for the years 1984 to 1999, we estimate the level and severity of asset poverty. Our results indicate … that the share of asset- poor households remained almost the same and the severity of poverty increased during this period … head, and homeownership, are important determinants of asset poverty. There seems to be a downward trend in the …
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