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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …
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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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methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … these changes. First, we present theory showing significant mismeasurement of welfare for households who can shift into … aggregates. We use Georgia as a case study to compare these methods and assess impacts on poverty and inequality. The proportion …
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Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … eligibility. We apply recent advances in multidimensional measurement analysis to develop a straightforward method for summarizing … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty …
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This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a …-level investment is also negatively related to several measures of poverty. Overall, our results indicate that firm-level capital … reducing inequality and poverty. Our results may also be beneficial to policy makers as they consider a variety of regulatory …
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multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …
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avenues for further research. -- well-being ; multidimensional poverty ; distance function ; Catalonia …
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empirical support for the claim that acquisition diaries yield the most accurate measurement of poverty and inequality and offer …
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Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …
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This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking and quantifying the extent of deprivation exhibited by multidimensional distributions, where the multiple attributes in which an individual can be deprived are represented by dichotomized variables. To this end we first aggregate deprivation...
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