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Comparing Multidimensional Indices of Inequality: methods and application
Lugo, Maria Ana - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2005
The paper provides an examination into the measures of multidimensional inequality proposed in the past few years, their properties and majorization criteria. It offers a generalisation of Bourguignon index proposed so that it includes Tsui measures (1999) while preserving the virtues of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135140
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Race, poverty, and deprivation in South Africa
Gradín, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among … those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans … show that the racial gap in poverty and deprivation can be attributed to the cumulative disadvantaged characteristics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366282
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The pro-poorness, growth and inequality nexus: Some findings from a simulation study
Groll, Thomas; Lambert, Peter J. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equiproportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen as either … detail the properties of inequality reduction and pro-poorness, using the Watts poverty index and Gini inequality index, when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274352
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Growth and Deprivation in India: What Does Recent Data Say?
Motiram, Sripad; Naraparaju, Karthikeya - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, we use a framework that rigorously assesses the impact of growth on the poor … over a range of poverty lines. Using National Sample Surveys on consumption expenditure, we show that while growth has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010726688
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Inequality from a global perspective: An alternative approach
Edward, Peter; Sumner, Andy - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
The interplay of between- and within-country inequality, the relative contribution of each to overall global inequality, and the implications this has for who benefits from recent global growth (and by how much), has become a significant avenue for economic research. Drawing conclusions from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878113
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Disparities in Socio-Economic Outcomes: Some Positive Propositions and their Normative Implications
Lambert, Peter J.; Subramanian, S. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
Demographic disparities between the rates of occurrence of an adverse economic outcome can be observed to be increasing even as general social improvements supposedly lead towards the elimination of the adverse outcome in question. Scanlan (2006) noticed this tendency and developed a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878127
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Pro-poor growth and the lognormal income distribution
Lambert, Peter J. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009
poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equiproportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen as either … has sometimes been assumed in order to determine analytically the poverty effects of income growth. We show that in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967192
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Ranking Inequality: Applications of Multivariate Subset Selection
Horrace, William C.; Marchand, Joseph T.; Smeeding, … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006
Inequality measures are often presented in the form of a rank ordering to highlight their relative magnitudes. However, a rank ordering may produce misleading inference, because the inequality measures themselves are statistical estimators with different standard errors, and because a rank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135139
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“Leftist”, “Rightist” and Intermediate Decompositions of Poverty: Variations with an Application to China from 1990 to 2003
Bresson, Florent; Labar, Kelly - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2007
This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty variations into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413418
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Economic well-being in Italy: The role of income insecurity and intergenerational inequality
Berloffa, Gabriella; Modena, Francesca - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
This paper provides a measure of economic well-being for the Italian context. In the last two decades Italy experienced a sharp increase in labour market flexibility and a relative loss of command over resources of young generations with respect to older ones. We include new measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502853