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Human Assets Index Retrospective series: 2013 update
GOUJON, Michaël; CLOSSET, Mathilde; FEINDOUNO, Sosso - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le … - 2014
Human capital, a broad concept including education and health, plays a central role in economic development and human well-being.  As a consequence, low human capital became one of the three criteria used by the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (UN-CDP) for identifying Least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886151
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Human Assets Index Retrospective series: 2013 update
GOUJON, Michaël; CLOSSET, Mathilde; FEINDOUNO, Sosso - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le … - 2014
Human capital, a broad concept including education and health, plays a central role in economic development and human well-being.  As a consequence, low human capital became one of the three criteria used by the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (UN-CDP) for identifying Least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886152
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UNDP’s Multidimensional poverty index
DUCLOS, Jean-Yves - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le … - 2011
distribution of deprivation within a number of dimensions as well as the distribution of multiple deprivations across the … dimensions. This is important since there are good reasons to think of multidimensional poverty as more than just the sum of … poverty across various dimensions of well-being. The MPI suffers, however, from a few unattractive features that need to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747683
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Pro-poor indirect tax reforms, with an application to Mexico
ARAAR, Abdelkrim; DUCLOS, Jean-Yves; MAKDISSI, Paul - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le … - 2012
This paper proposes a methodology for testing for whether tax reforms are pro-poor. This is done by extending stochastic dominance techniques to identify tax reforms that will be deemed absolutely or relatively pro-poor by a wide spectrum of poverty analysts. The statistical properties of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747710
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Relational Capability: A Multidimensional Approach
GIRAUD, Gaël; RENOUARD, Cécile; L'HUILLIER, Hélène; … - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le … - 2013
This paper explores some of the dimensions related to poverty and exclusion, by defining a Relational Capability Index …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747741
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Relational Capability: A Multidimensional Approach
GIRAUD, Gaël; RENOUARD, Cécile; L'HUILLIER, Hélène; … - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le … - 2013
This paper explores some of the dimensions related to poverty and exclusion, by defining a Relational Capability Index …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747743
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Getting Progress Right : Measuring Progress Towards the MDGs Against Historical Trends
KLASEN, Stephan; LANGE, Simon - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le … - 2012
Most numerical targets within the framework of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are overly ambitious for the poorest countries when interpreted as country-specic goals. As a consequence, the current system undermines accountability and ownership and jeopardizes the public support the MDGs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747746
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Is the value of humanity increasing? A critical-level enquiry
COCKBURN, John; DUCLOS, Jean-Yves; ZABSONRÉ, Agnès - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le … - 2011
We assess whether the value of humanity (or global social welfare) has improved in the last decades despite (or because of ) the substantial increase in global population sizes. We use for this purpose a relatively unknown but simple and attractive social evaluation approach based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747755
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UNDP’s Multidimensional poverty index
DUCLOS, Jean-Yves - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le … - 2011
distribution of deprivation within a number of dimensions as well as the distribution of multiple deprivations across the … dimensions. This is important since there are good reasons to think of multidimensional poverty as more than just the sum of … poverty across various dimensions of well-being. The MPI suffers, however, from a few unattractive features that need to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747757
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Getting Progress Right : Measuring Progress Towards the MDGs Against Historical Trends
KLASEN, Stephan; LANGE, Simon - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le … - 2012
Most numerical targets within the framework of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are overly ambitious for the poorest countries when interpreted as country-specic goals. As a consequence, the current system undermines accountability and ownership and jeopardizes the public support the MDGs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747761