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Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global … development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey … tangible information about poverty. But both ignore the depth of poverty, so they arguably present distorted views of the …
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poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …
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This paper studies the pro-poor bias of contemporary trade policy in India by estimating the household welfare effects of eliminating the current protection structure. The elimination of a pro-poor trade policy is expected to have lower welfare gains or higher welfare loss at the low end of the...
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Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … between surveys is associated with a lower probability of predicting some poverty indicators, and that a better imputation …
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poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …
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Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics for Russia, using the … composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. We decompose poverty into …
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economies of scale are understated (as is the case when using the 'square root of household size'), the relative poverty …
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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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poverty and affluence poles and regimes, for fulltime selfemployed, employees and subsequently for further socio …
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A new book on measuring global poverty by the late Tony Atkinson was published in 2019 by Princeton University Press … parallel developments in the World Bank's measurement of global poverty that were stimulated by the report of the Commission on … Global Poverty, written by Atkinson, from which this book was developed. The new book is more than four hundred published …
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