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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 distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …
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Commodity producers in Africa often bene?t from guaranteed and relatively stable prices for their crops. This paper shows how to estimate the required increase in crop price necessary to o¤set the higher risk for farmers that price liberalization would entail due to large variations over time...
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timing of social welfare payments in Montreal, Canada compared to the timing in Bangor, Maine. We find some statistically …
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transferts aux particuliers à l’allégement de la pauvreté au Québec et au Canada. Cette contribution est départagée en un produit … d’allégement de la pauvreté par dollar dépensé. On constate aussi que, relativement au reste du Canada, les programmes …
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Dans cet article, nous analysons l'impact des politiques de transferts publics sur la pauvreté au Canada et aux états …'ordre arbitraire dans laquelle on aurait pu la considérer. Nous constatons que la pauvreté est plus élevée aux états-Unis qu'au Canada …. Ceci est principalement d\^{u} au fait que les politiques de transferts au Canada sont plus généreuses qu'aux états …
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Ce papier estime l'évolution de la pauvreté au Québec et au Canada de 1996 à 2005 ainsi que les effets des principaux … certains organismes officiels tels que Statistique Canada, l'Institut de la Statistique du Québec et le Ministère de l …
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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 … Goal (MDG, henceforth), that is to cut poverty by half. As is illustrated in this paper, estimated poverty changes may be … a new numerical method to allow to estimate accurately the impact of distributive changes on poverty. …
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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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The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …
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This paper extends the previous literature on the normative links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare … and inequality. We show how, when the range of possible poverty lines is unbounded above, a robust ranking of absolute … poverty may be interpreted as a robust ranking of social welfare, and a robust ranking of relative poverty may be interpreted …
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