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The paper proposes a simple framework for the evaluation of anti-poverty programs based on single means differences …, FGT poverty measures and stochastic dominance theory. A Treatment Effect Curve (TEC) is derived and its use illustrated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010629397
The paper proposes a simple framework for the evaluation of anti-poverty programs based on single means differences …, FGT poverty measures and stochastic dominance theory. A Treatment Effect Curve (TEC) is derived and its use illustrated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562903
The paper proposes a simple framework for the evaluation of anti-poverty programs based on single means differences …, FGT poverty measures and stochastic dominance theory. A Treatment Effect Curve (TEC) is derived and its use illustrated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148313
be straightforward to use the techniques of poverty measurement in order to provide richer information on the extent of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278881
This article provides a simple framework to analyze the determinants of targeting performance of utility tariffs and applies it to data on electricity in Cape Verde, Rwanda, and Sao Tome and Principe. While most indicators of benefit incidence are silent as of why subsidies are targeted the way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010835974
This note applies tools from the stochastic dominance literature on poverty to environmental data in order to test in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005110801
This article provides a simple framework to analyze the determinants of targeting performance of utility tariffs and applies it to data on electricity in Cape Verde, Rwanda, and Sao Tome and Principe. While most indicators of benefit incidence are silent as of why subsidies are targeted the way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005110906
differences in costs according to both service provider and household poverty status. Our results indicate that the poor pay much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094867
such data. Conceptually, time poverty can be understood as the fact that some individuals do not have enough time for rest … therefore higher ‘time poverty''. This paper provides a simple application of the concepts used in the consumption poverty … literature to time use, in order to obtain measures of time poverty for the population as a whole and for various groups of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094892
Income variablity is likely to increase wage inequality if poorer households are more vulnerable to shocks. Using a simple method to estimate risk-adjusted measures of wage inequality and data from Mexico, this note shows that safety nets could offset a good part of the impact of risk aversion...
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