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measured by the Gini coeffcient isconstant, dening the poverty line as a fraction of a central tendency of theliving standard … distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty measuresto be stable... …
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investigate properties of poverty indices.The method we propose is to exploit credible distributional assumptions to …: generateadditional properties for poverty indices; relate the latters to the incidenceof poverty and to an inequality index; enrich the … sensibility analysis of povertyindices; derive new families of relative poverty lines...derived. …
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We derive an explicit formula of the Watts’ poverty index, in terms of parametersof bivariate lognormal distributions … prices and nominal living standards in poverty; interpret the e¤ects on povertyof changes in price distributions; estimate … poverty when only means and variancesof price indices and nominal living standards are known.Using data from peasants in …
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We pursue an economic approach to analysing poverty. This requires a focus onthe variables that individuals can … demographic andemployment transitions as the driving forces behind changes in poverty. Weconstruct a dataset covering event … demographic and poverty data reasonably well. We investigate theimportant parameters and processes for differences in individuals …
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In this paper we provide evidence on how the UK government’s welfarereforms since 1998 have affected the material well-being of children in lowincomefamilies. We examine changes in expenditure patterns and ownership ofdurable goods for low- and higher-income families between the...
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Families with disabled children are susceptible to poverty because low incomeis compounded by high costs. Combing … reportoutlines issues that must be addressed if reduce poverty amongst disabledchildren is to be reduced.[...] …
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This paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist ProfessorAmartya Sen from the perspective of human rights. It assesses the ways inwhich Sen’s research agenda has deepened and expanded human rightsdiscourse in the disciplines of ethics and economics, and examines how hiswork...
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Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable andnoted feature of Chinese society. The paper … socialpolicies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined.The limitations of a social policy that is … approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty andinequality are considered.[...] …
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In July 2000, the Taipei City Government launched an anti-poverty program,Taipei Family Development Accounts, which …
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This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamicsbenefits from taking a life cycle perspective. A …
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