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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 …
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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...
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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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Time-Consistent Fiscal Policy Under Heterogeneity : Conflicting or Common Interests
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2011
This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of Markov-perfect tax-spending policy in a neoclassical growth model with capitalists and workers. Focusing on the long run, our main findings are: (i) it is optimal for a benevolent government, which cares equally about its...
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Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments
Findeisen, Sebastian - 2015
We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is independent of the social welfare function and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020515
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Taxing Human Capital Efficiently When Qualified Labour is Mobile
Richter, Wolfram F.; Kunze, Lars - 2021
The paper studies the effect that skilled labour mobility has on efficient education policy. The model is one of two periods in which a representative taxpayer decides on labour, education, and saving. The government can only use linear tax and subsidy instruments. It is shown that the mobility...
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Pareto-Improving Bequest Taxation
Grossmann, Volker; Poutvaara, Panu - 2021
Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show that in the presence of wage taxation, a small bequest tax may improve efficiency in an overlapping-generations framework with only intended bequests, by enhancing incentives of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318327
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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
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