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Death and destitution: the global distribution of welfare losses from the COVID-19 pandemic

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Sterck, Olivier; Mahler, … - 2021

and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life … period and by the most conservative definition, over 120 million additional years were spent in poverty because of the … poverty burden, on the contrary, declines with per capita national incomes when a constant absolute poverty line is used, or …

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Shared prosperity : concepts, data, and some policy examples

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Galasso, Emanuela; Negre, Mario - 2018

indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …

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Opportunity-sensitive poverty measurement

Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Ana Lugo, Maria - 2013

We axiomatically characterize two classes of poverty measures which are sensitive to inequality of opportunity - one a … strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty line, but also …-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. Using household survey data from eighteen European countries in …

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Inequality of opportunity and economic growth : a cross-country analysis

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Lakner, Christoph; Ana Lugo, … - 2014

Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be associated with faster economic growth, other kinds, arising from unequal opportunities for investment, might be detrimental to economic progress. We construct two new metadata...

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Inequality bands : seventy-five years of measuring income inequality in Latin America

Alvaredo, Facundo; Bourguignon, François; Ferreira, … - 2024

Drawing on a comprehensive compilation of quantile shares and inequality measures for 34 countries, including over 5,600 estimated Gini coefficients, we review the measurement of income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last seven decades. We find that there is quite a bit...

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Prioritarianism and equality of opportunity

Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, … - 2021

This paper asks whether prioritarianism - the view that social welfare orderings should give explicit priority to the worse-off - is consistent with the normative theory of equality of opportunity. We show that there are inherent tensions between some of the axioms underpinning prioritarianism...

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Inequality of opportunity, income inequality and economic mobility : some international comparisons

Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, … - 2013

Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries, methodological differences have so far prevented meaningful international comparisons. This paper presents a comparison of ex-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity...

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Is there a "new consensus" on inequality?

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2023

Thirty years after the "Washington Consensus", is there a new policy consensus that addresses the problem of inequality? This paper argues that there is widespread acceptance that multiple, interrelated and mutually reinforcing inequalities exist - in income, wealth, education, health, power,...

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Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America

Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2024

How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity for the region, summarizing results for both income and educational outcomes....

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Inherited inequality : a general framework and a "beyond-averages" application to South Africa

Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Salas-Rojo, Pedro - 2024

Scholars have sought to quantify the extent of inequality which is inherited from past generations in multiple ways, including a large body of work on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity. This paper makes two contributions to that broad literature. First, we show that many...

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