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Accounting for the effect of health on cross-state income inequality in India

Sperling, Lena Lindbjerg; Kjøller-Hansen, Anders Oskar - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 2, pp. 252-255

We perform development accounting in accordance with Weil (2005, 2007) in a cross-state analysis of India. Results of similar magnitude are found, demonstrating that health can account for 1% to 18% of income differences depending on the health measure.

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Measuring the Distribution of Human Development: methodology and an application to Mexico

Foster, James; Lopez-Calva, Luis; Szekely, Miguel - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 6 (2005) 1, pp. 5-25

The Human Development Index (HDI) improves upon per-capita Gross Domestic Product as an indicator of development by incorporating information on health and education. However, like its predecessor, it fails to account for the inequality with which the benefits of development are distributed...

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Gender Budgets: A Capability Approach

Addabbo, Tindara; Lanzi, Diego; Picchio, Antonella - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 11 (2010) 4, pp. 479-501

Feminist studies have developed several tools to assess the gender impact of public policy and of budgets in particular. In this paper we introduce an innovative approach to the gender auditing of public budgets inspired by the capability approach. First, we expand the scope of the assessment of...

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The absence of deprivation as a measure of social well-being: An empirical investigation

Magdalou, Brice; Moyes, Patrick - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 1, pp. 75-79

The generalised Lorenz criterion is widely used for making welfare comparisons within and across countries on the basis of their income distributions. Experimental studies have challenged this way of proceeding by showing that the principle of transfers, which underlies the generalised Lorenz...

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Is income inequality persistent? Evidence using panel stationarity tests, 1870–2011

Islam, Md. Rabiul; Madsen, Jakob B. - In: Economics Letters 127 (2015) C, pp. 17-19

Using data on inequality for 21 OECD countries over the period 1870–2011 this paper tests the Piketty hypothesis that income inequality is likely to grow in the 21st century. It is shown that the null hypothesis of trend stationarity of inequality cannot be rejected at conventional...

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New Threats to Human Security in the Era of Globalization

Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 4 (2003) 2, pp. 167-179

This paper makes a case for analysing the new insecurities introduced or worsened by globalization from a human security perspective. The author examines the ways in which globalization is changing the word -- economically, politically, and in terms of information and communications technology...

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Human Security and Global Health

Chen, Lincoln; Narasimhan, Vasant - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 4 (2003) 2, pp. 181-190

poverty and inequality. The authors then draw out the implications for policy-making. …

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Opportunities for the Poor, Co-responsibilities for Women: Female Capabilities and Vulnerability in Human Development Policy and Practice

Sanchiz, Alejandro Agudo - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 11 (2010) 4, pp. 533-554

This paper looks at a particular type of anti-poverty aid and its implications for gender inequality. The development …-generational poverty through transfers conditioned on 'co-responsibilities' fulfilled especially by mothers and aimed at strengthening the … development schemes aimed at poverty rather than at inequality. …

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Poverty in Mexico from an Ethnic Perspective

Alba, Ivan Gonzalez de - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 11 (2010) 3, pp. 449-465

identification of the indigenous population. In this paper the official income poverty method is replicated for 2008, comparing the … data for indigenous and non-indigenous populations show that members of the first group are poorer, and that poverty is …

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Estimating the value and distributional effects of free state schooling

Andreou, Sofia N.; Koutsampelas, Christos; Pashardes, Panos - In: Economics Letters 125 (2014) 2, pp. 303-305

and anti-poverty effects of state education are illustrated. …

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