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Three Conundrums in Measuring Poverty with a Changing Population
Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2006
around a constant income distribution to illustrate why standard measures of poverty, built on the intuitions of unchanging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250111
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Conceptualizing Economic Marginalization
Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2007
What exactly is 'economic marginalization'? How should one conceptualize it, and what are the implications of such conceptualization? Economic marginalization can be conceptualized as outcome or as process (or structure). On outcomes, marginalization can be a static description, or a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528133
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Minimum Wages And Poverty
Kanbur, Ravi; Fields, Gary - eSocialSciences - 2005
analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … in which a higher minimum wage raises poverty, others where it reduces poverty, and yet others in which poverty is … unchanged. We characterize precisely how the poverty effect depends on four parameters: the degree of poverty aversion, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528142
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Conceptualising Social Security And Income Redistribution
Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper offers a conceptualisation of social security and income redistribution schemes which highlights the strong overlaps between the two. Indeed, it is virtually impossible to disentangle the two in practice. The major conclusion is that any assessment of one cannot proceed without taking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323702
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Three Observations on the Challenges of Growth and Poverty Reduction in Asia
Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2006
While Asia’s success in growth and poverty reduction is to be greatly welcomed, and should be analysed for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321485
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What’s Social Policy Got To Do With Economic Growth?
Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2006
So what’s social policy got to do with economic growth? Quite a lot, it would appear, if one takes the results of cross-country growth regressions at face value, as they are by many social policy analysts, even as they criticize the findings of the economic policy part of the very same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699351