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well-known inequality indices. The same cannot be said, in respect of poverty indices, for the second-order stochastic … dominance criterion for poverty analysis introduced by Atkinson (1987). Indeed, two of the best known poverty indices, the head … provides a more comprehensive coverage of poverty indice. By establishing the relationship between welfare and poverty …
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This paper documents the impact of Argentina's recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a special … focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple … rule to compensate for the lack of regional poverty figures until 2001, providing consistent series of urban poverty …
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-adjusted income and poverty measures and to analyze their determinants. Taking risk into account increases poverty. The regression …
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The Lisbon summit of the European Council in March 2000 declared the number of people living in poverty and social … conclusions was a commitment to the collection of better data on poverty and social exclusion in the EU. …
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We show how to minimize the probability of misclassifying individuals as being poor or not poor when data on some of their relevant attributes are missing, but an estimate of the population distribution of attributes is available.
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This paper studies poverty as a dynamic phenomenon, motivated by the recurring economic crises that affect developing … still lack a unified framework. Echoing Atkinson (1987), this paper addresses the question of how poverty should be measured …
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We provide a parsimonious axiomatisation of the complete class of absolute nequality indices. Our approach uses only a weak form of decomposability and does not require a priori that the measures be differentiable.
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We give an objective meaning to the concept of taxable capacity and establish a theoretical link between Optimal Taxation Theory (OTT) and the proposals of the Carter and Meade Reports, solving at the same time Kay’s (2008) criticism to both approaches.
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Non-communicable diseases account for more than 50% of deaths in adults aged 15–59 years in most low income countries. Depression and diabetes carry an enormous public health burden, making the identification of risk factors for these disorders an important strategy. While socio-economic...
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Relative poverty in the UK has risen massively since 1979 mainly because of increasing worklessness, rising earnings … dispersion and benefits indexed to prices, not wages. So poverty is now at a very high level. The economic forces underlying this … tail in the skill distribution, there is no practical possibility of policy reducing relative poverty to 1979 levels. …
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