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We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped distributional data by allowing … counterparts, then by comparing the true and generated values of the Gini coefficient and other inequality indices. The results …
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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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This paper establishes the principles which should govern the welfare and inequality analysis of heterogeneous income …. However, inequality and welfare comparisons will usually be well defined only if equivalent incomes are obtained using … constant scale factors; and researchers will need to distinguish clearly between inequality of nominal incomes and inequality …
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used to establish patterns of wealth inequality within countries. Imputations are again performed for countries lacking … cent. Between-country differences in wealth are two-thirds of global inequality according to the Gini coefficient …, indicating a larger role for within-country inequality than in the case of income according to recent estimates. …
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