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Deprivation profile in Cameroon: A combined analysis of Poverty and Social Exclusion
Miamo Wendji, Clovis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In this study, we analyze the privations welfare in Cameroon considering poverty and social exclusion. The framework … provided by the capability approach and construction of indicators of poverty and social exclusion by the fuzzy method from … ECAM III survey data shows that the overall level of poverty and social exclusion (respectively 0.4008 and 0.2291), are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275134
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The poverty and inequality nexus in Ghana: a decomposition analysis of household expenditure components
Novignon, Jacob; Nonvignon, Justice; Mussa, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The study examined the linkages between inequality in household expenditure components and total inequality and poverty …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between … poverty and inequality. The findings imply that policies directed towards reducing within-component inequality will be more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252595
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Measuring Unfair Inequality : Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
Hufe, Paul - 2018
fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912680
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Charting Income Inequality: The Lorenz Curve
Bellù, Lorenzo G.; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919738
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Crossing Generalised Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924809
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004151
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The role of financial inclusion in improving household well-being
Sakyi-Nyarko, Carlos; Ahmad, Ahmad Hassan; Green, … - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 34 (2022) 8, pp. 1606-1632
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013464042
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Polarization and its discontents : Morocco before and after the Arab Spring
Clementi, Fabio; Molini, Vasco; Schettino, Francesco; … - In: Journal of economic inequality 21 (2023) 1, pp. 105-129
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014265747
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Redistributive Politics and the Tyranny of the Middle Class
Zoutman, Floris - 2016
The Netherlands has a unique tradition in which all major Dutch political parties provide CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis with highly detailed proposals for the tax benefit system in every national election. This information allows us to quantitatively measure the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991936
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Income Dependent Equivalence Scales, Inequality, and Poverty
Dudel, Christian - 2015
Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there … differing assessments of poverty and inequality under quite general conditions. German microdata will be used to demonstrate and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011717