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poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …
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addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
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We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …
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income and poverty. This implies that high-income people are more likely to benefit from economic growth, especially in …
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the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …
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effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the …-economic groups rose. All poverty indicators suggest that poverty increased substantially, especially when "anchored" poverty lines … are used. Substantial changes are observed regarding the structure of poverty. Despite an increase in the population share …
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warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies … consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … poverty than transient poverty. The results are robust to different model specifications and measures of chronic poverty and …
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When developing anti-poverty policies, policymakers need accurate data on theprevalence of poverty. In this paper, we … focus on subjective poverty, a conceptwhich has been largely neglected in literature, yet remains a conceptually appeal …-ing way to define poverty. The primary goal of this study is to re-examine theconcept of subjective poverty measurement and to …
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growth, poverty, and inequality. We find that typicalsurvey measures of consumption and income may exaggerate poverty …
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When developing anti-poverty policies, policymakers need accurate data on the prevalence of poverty. In this paper, we … focus on subjective poverty, a concept which has been largely neglected in the literature, though it remains a conceptually … appealing way to define poverty. The primary goal of this study is to re-examine the concept of subjective poverty measurement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012626746