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Decomposing poverty changes into vertical and horizontal components

Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - In: Bulletin of Economic Research 57 (2005) 2, pp. 205-215

Variations in aggregate poverty indices can be due to differences in average poverty intensity, to changes in the … change in poverty into a sum of indices of each of these three components. This decomposition can serve inter alia to … integrate horizontal and vertical equity criteria in the poverty alleviation assessment of social and economic programmes. The …

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Fuzzy Targeting Indices and Orderings

Makdissi, Paul; Wodon, Quentin - In: Bulletin of Economic Research 56 (2004) 1, pp. 41-51

The targeting efficiency and the coverage of social programs for the poor are typically analyzed by partitioning the total population in four mutually exclusive groups: the poor who benefit from a program or policy, the poor who do not benefit, the non-poor who benefit, and the non-poor who do...

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Optimal Emissions Taxation under Imperfect Competition in a Durable Good Industry

Runkel, Marco - In: Bulletin of Economic Research 56 (2004) 2, pp. 115-132

This paper investigates optimal emissions taxation under imperfect competition in a durable good industry where products are sold (instead of rented). As a benchmark, attention is paid to the special case of monopoly with exogenously given product durability. In line with previous literature,...

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