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DEFINING POVERTY LINES AS A FRACTION OFCENTRAL TENDENCY
Muller, Christophe - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2000
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... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869058
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Neighbourhood Management
Power, Anne T.; Bergin, Emmet - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
The way we run urban neighbourhoods in Britain is a key to reversingsocial exclusion, crime and poor performance on almost every front inour cities. This study for the Social Exclusion Unit of seven models ofneighbourhood management analyses the reason for its key position inthe national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008733223
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THE WATTS’ POVERTY INDEXWITH EXPLICIT PRICE VARIABILITY
Muller, Christophe - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 1998
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522206
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THE PROPERTIESOF THE WATTS’ POVERTY INDEXUNDER LOGNORMALITY
Muller, Christophe - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 1998
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869191
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THE WATTS’ POVERTY INDEXWITH EXPLICIT PRICE VARIABILITY
Muller, Christophe - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 1998
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869195