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Proximity-sensitive individual deprivation measures
BOSSERT, Walter; D'AMBROSIO, Conchita - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2012
We propose and characterize a generalization of the classical linear index of individual deprivation based on income shortfalls. Unlike the original measure, our class allows for increases in the income of a higher-income individual to have a stronger impact on a person’s deprivation the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933675
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Health and Income: a Robust Comparison of Canada and the US
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Échevin, Damien - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2009
This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015293
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Testing for Poverty Dominance: an Application to Canada
Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008
The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015326
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Reference Groups and Individual Deprivation
BOSSERT, Walter; D'AMBROSIO, Conchita - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2004
We provide an axiomatization of Yitzhaki’s index of individual deprivation. Our result differs from an earlier characterization due to Ebert and Moyes in the way the reference group of an individual is represented in the model. Ebert and Moyes require the index to be defined for all logically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005353139
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A Poverty and Inequality Impact Assessment of Liberalization of Water Utility in Senegal: A Macro-Micro Analysis
Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Estache, Antonio; Savard, Luc - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2005
Many argued that water accessibility to the poor has been improved with the privatization of water utilities and that privatization on the whole has been beneficial to the poor households. In this paper, we used a multi-household integrated CGE model to analyze the impact of the privatization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005770819
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Distributional impact of developed countries CC policies on Senegal : A macro-micro CGE application
Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Estache, Antonio; Savard, Luc - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2009
consequences of CC and is vulnerable to changes in world prices of energy given is lack of substitution capacity. According to … reveal slight increases in poverty when world price of fossil fuels increase and the negative impact are amplified with … decreases in land productivity. However, subsidizing electricity consumption to protect consumers for price world price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034648
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Reference Groups and Individual Deprivation
BOSSERT, Walter; D’AMBROSIO, Conchita - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2004
We provide an axiomatization of Yitzhaki’s index of individual deprivation. Our result differs from an earlier characterization due to Ebert and Moyes in the way the reference group of an individual is represented in the model. Ebert and Moyes require the index to be defined for all logically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545568
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Electricity Reforms in Senegal: A Macro–Micro Analysis of the Effects on Poverty and Distribution
Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Estache, Antonio; Savard, Luc - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2007
This paper uses a computable general equilibrium (CGE) macro-micro model to explore the distributional effects of price reform in the electricity sector of Senegal. In the first part of the paper we analyze the distribution of electricity in Senegal by income quintiles, between 1995 and 2001....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005609429
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Une analyse d’impact économique et social de la cohérence des politiques économiques et aide publique au développement au Sénégal : Un cadre macro-micro
Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Savard, Luc - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2007
Dans ce travail, nous analysons la cohérence de politiques de développement sur la pauvreté et la distribution des revenus au Sénégal. Les politiques économiques et de développements des pays développés ont un impact significatif sur les pays en voie de développement. Ces politiques...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005609439
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Impact Analysis of the Liberalization of Groundnut Production in Senegal: A Multi-household Computable General Equilibrium Model
Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Savard, Luc - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2005
prices on the world market (groundnuts and groundnut oils). These simulations have been used to assess the impacts that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005609451