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Evaluating the success of President Johnson's war on poverty : revisiting the historical record using a full-income poverty measure
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Corinth, Kevin; Elwell, James; … - 2019
We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty reductions based on the standard that President Johnson...
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Global poverty goals and prices : how purchasing power parity matters
Jolliffe, Dean; Prydz, Espen Beer - 2015
With the recent release of the 2011 purchasing power parity (PPP) data from the International Comparison Program (ICP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528588
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Global Poverty Goals and Prices : How Purchasing Power Parity Matters
Jolliffe, Dean - 2015
With the recent release of the 2011 purchasing power parity (PPP) data from the International Comparison Program (ICP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246152
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Chronic material deprivation and long-term poverty in Europe in the pre-crisis period
Papadopoulos, Fotis; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2016
The paper examines the degree of overlap between people who experience chronic material deprivation and those who face long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal information of the EU-SILC. In order to approximate chronic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452698
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Perspectives on poverty in Europe
Jenkins, Stephen - 2018
; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955500
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The relationship between income inquality, poverty and globalisation
Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002226391
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Vulnerability to poverty : Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis
Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John S.; … - 2016
We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...
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The capability threshold : re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country
Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; Berg, Servaas van der - 2015
In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2018
Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
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Chronic and transient poverty : measurement and estimation, with evidence from China
Duclos, Jean-Yves (contributor);  … - 2006
The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach … apply these tools to the measurement of chronic and transient poverty in China using a rich panel data set that extends over … approximately 17 years. We find that alternative measurement techniques yield significantly different estimates of the relative …
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