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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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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Normative Analysis with Societal Constraints

Boadway, Robin; Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - CESifo - 2013

This paper examines the question of achieving a societal consensus around redistributive policies. Its extent is measured by the degree of work participation among the different skill classes that populate the economy. This consensus is driven both by the material incentives and heterogeneous...

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A formula for the optimal taxation in Probabilistic Voting Models characterized by Single Mindedness

Canegrati, Emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This work intends to specify a formula for the optimal taxation in Probabilistic Voting Models with Single Mindedness Theory. The goal is to find an equivalent expression to the Ramsey’s rule for a political economy environment where Governments are assumed to be Leviathans rather than...

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The perception of distributive fairness and optimal taxation under uncertainty

Weinreich, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper incorporates a preference for distributive fairness (inequity aversion) into the analysis on optimal redistributive taxation under uncertainty. We can show that introducing or strengthening the taste for distributive fairness does not affect the socially optimal tax rate (social...

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Okun's and Barro's Misery Index as an Alternative Poverty Assessment Tool. Recent Estimations for European Countries

Lechman, Ewa - 2014

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