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This paper empirically investigates the impact of Chile’s social protection’s monetary subsidies on vulnerability to … poverty during 1996-2006. Using the National Socioeconomic Characterization panel survey data, we adopt the Chaudhuri et al … unable to address the structural causes of vulnerability faced by individuals in Chile. …
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established in the region, found poverty persistence, the inequality enlarge and the social mobility limitations, some of the most … strategies impulse. In consequence, this situation positioning the themes of the poverty and the social inequalities in an … outstanding point in the regional development agenda. In this work, was did a recount of the main procedures used to poverty …
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alarming with respect to economic well-being as the poverty level especially among the STs. Slow progress in expected change in …
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The Indian economy in the recent past is growing faster (6-9%) than its past rate of growth (3-4%) and it is even surpassing the rate of growth of many developed and developing countries all over the world. The Indian economy is showing high growth potential and it is one of those countries that...
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poverty, linking income transfers with simultaneous interventions in health, education and nutrition. Second, the programme …
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This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality measurement. A short conceptual background, a step-by-step procedure and a simple numerical example illustrate how to calculate and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz...
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This paper illustrates how Crossing Generalised Lorenz (GL) curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. It starts by illustrating two alternative income distributions...
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This paper illustrates how Lorenz Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. After highlighting some drawbacks of using specific functional forms of the Social...
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The present paper reviews the different methods in practice to measure the human development or deprivation, which, in fact, is an emerging part of the development discourse. Specifically it deals with the problems of comparability, aggregation and weighing the dimension/indicators in composite...
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, including data on the level of poverty and inequality in Jordan. Part 2 discusses the challenges and opportunities facing …
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