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Global High-Resolution Estimates of the United Nations Human Development Index Using Satellite Imagery and Machine-learning
Sherman, Luke; Proctor, Jonathan; Druckenmiller, Hannah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) is arguably the most widely used alternative to gross domestic product for measuring national development. This is in large part due to its multidimensional nature, as it incorporates not only income, but also education and health. However, the...
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Real-Time Poverty, Material Well-Being, and the Child Tax Credit
Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …
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Income inequality and government transfers in Mexico
Lambert, Frederic; Park, Hyunmin - 2019
We analyze microdata from Mexico's survey on household income and expenditures (ENIGH) to study the evolution of income inequality in Mexico over 2004-16, identify its sources, and investigate how it was affected by government social policy. We find evidence of only a small decline in inequality...
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Naturaleza y selectividad de la política social
Sojo, Ana - In: Revista CEPAL (1990), pp. 183-199
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El estado y la pobreza en Costa Rica
Taylor-Dormond, Marvin - In: Revista CEPAL (1991), pp. 133-150
El liberalismo vigente en America Latina puede inducir a confiar a la mano invisible del mercado la tarea redistributiva. En el presente articulo se intenta contribuir al acervo de conocimientos sobre el papel del estado en materia de transferencia de recursos y atencion a los pobres en Costa...
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Notas sobre la medición de la pobreza según el método del ingreso
Feres, Juan Carlos - In: Revista CEPAL (1997), pp. 119-133
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Crecimiento, justicia distributiva y política social
Solimano, Andrés - In: Revista CEPAL (1998), pp. 31-44
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Distribucion del ingreso, pobreza y gasto social en America Latina
Ocampo Gaviria, José Antonio - In: Revista CEPAL (1998), pp. 7-14
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Being poor, feeling poorer : inequality, poverty and poverty perceptions in the Western Balkans
Koczan, Zsoka - 2016
inform policy by complementing the analysis of standard macro-level measures of inequality and poverty with a household …-level analysis of subjective perceptions of poverty. We find that many more people appear to feel poor than are classified as such …
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Poverty in Ukraine : an overview
Slay, Benjamin (contributor) - 2009
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