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decomposition techniques of inequality measurement in a bivariate distribution context. Usually decomposed measures of inequality …
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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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poverty, welfare and inequality. This includes estimators of most of the poverty indices currently in use, as well as …, inequality or social welfare is greater in one distribution than in another for general classes of indices. We also derive the …
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inequality and high redistributive effect for some specific figures of transfers. The contribution from Vertical Equity (VE) is …
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This paper makes a new attack on the old problem of measuring horizontal inequity (HI). A local measure of HI is proposed, and aggregated into a global index. Whilst other approaches have captured the welfare gain which would come from eliminating HI revenue-neutrally, our global index provides...
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L’objectif principal de la Stratégie de croissance accélérée (SCA) du Sénégal est d’accroître le rythme de la croissance de l’économie en la rendant profitable aux pauvres. Or dans toute économie, il existe une relation entre la croissance économique, la réduction de la...
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multidimensional poverty within and between sub-groups of population, and to determine the dimensions that tend to increase inequality … in poverty. The goal of this article is double. Firstly, we present the combined methodology to study the inequality in …
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source on inequality in total income. This note extends the methodology to take into account income variability. …
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This note provides simple tests for first-order bi-polarization orderings of distributions of living standards. In doing so, the paper also offers an ethical basis and an interpretation for the common use of some simple measures of distances from the median. Illustrations using Luxembourg Income...
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