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This paper explores the link between poverty and inequality through an analysis of the poverty impact of changes in … income-component inequality and in between -an within- group inequality. This can help shed light on the theoretical and … empirical linkages between poverty, growth and inequality. It might also help design policies to improve both equity and welfare …
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the dynamic of inequality, polarization and progressivity of the fiscal system. The results of this study confirm the … effectiveness of governmental redistributive mechanism to decrease inequality and polarization significantly and to maintain the …
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This paper explores the link between polarization and inequality and proposes some analytical methods to decompose the … even if inequality has increased sharply during the last two decades, the pure polarization component was remained constant …
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This paper proposes techniques to test whether growth has been pro-poor. We first review different definitions of pro-poorness and argue for the use of methods that can generate results that are robust over classes of pro-poor measures and ranges of poverty lines. We then provide statistical...
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or that of the change in inequality on poverty. During the last few years, there was a growing interest to perform such …
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incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada’s tax system limits … income equalizing effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that …
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This paper studies the pro-poor growth in the Latino American Andean countries. We first present different definitions of pro-poorness and the related methods in order to generate the statistically robust results for classes of pro-poor measures. Also, we present the non anonymous pro-poor...
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ethically flexible tools that integrate these two strands. This is achieved using a measure of inequality that merges the well … transfers into a vertical equity effect and a loss of redistribution due to either classical HI or reranking. An inequality …-change approach and a money-metric cost-of-inequality approach are developed. The latter approach makes aggregate classical HI …
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flexible tools that integrate these two strands. This is achieved using a measure of inequality that merges the well-known Gini … inequality-change approach and a money-metric cost-of-inequality approach are developed. The latter approach makes aggregate …
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In this paper we provide a set of rules that can be used to check poverty or inequality dominance using discrete data …
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