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Pro-Poor Tax Reforms, with an Application to Mexico
Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2009
This paper proposes a methodology for testing for whether tax reforms are pro-poor. This is done by extending stochastic dominance techniques to help identify tax reforms that will necessarily be deemed absolutely or relatively pro-poor by a wide spectrum of poverty analysts. The statistical...
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The More the Poorer? Resource Sharing and Scale Economies in Large Families
Calvi, Rossella; Penglase, Jacob; Tommasi, Denni; Wolf, Alex - 2021
The structure of a family may have important consequences for the material well-being of its members. For example, in large families, an individual must share resources with many others, but she may benefit from economies of scale in consumption. In this paper, we study individual consumption in...
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Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India
Anand, Paul - 2020
the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct …-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …
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India's Calorie Consumption Puzzle : Insights from the Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis of Calorie Purchases
Hazarika, Gautam - 2020
, perplexing in the face of rising per capita income when malnutrition is rampant, has been termed India's Calorie Consumption … India's National Sample Survey reveals that Indian households' purchase of calories did become more cost-efficient at every … of the Calorie Consumption Puzzle. Besides thus investigating India's Calorie Consumption Puzzle, this study demonstrates …
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Do Constraints on Women Worsen Child Deprivations? Framework, Measurement, and Evidence from India
Posso, Alberto - 2019
India, including 53,030 mothers and 113,708 children, collected in 2015-16.Outcomes are measured as multidimensional …
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Household Income Mobility in India : 1993-2011
Azam, Mehtabul - 2016
households characteristics. We find lower conditional gaps in both upward/downward mobility in rural India for the disadvantaged …
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Spatial Income Inequality in India, 1993-2011 : A District Level Decomposition
Azam, Mehtabul - 2016
role of individual and geographical factors in determining the level and the change in income inequality in India. We find … that between-state income differences account for the majority of between-district income inequality in rural India in 2011 …. However, in urban India within-state income differences explain most of the between- district inequality in 2011. We also find …
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Are Urban-Rural Welfare Differences Growing in India?
Azam, Mehtabul - 2017
, we examine the urban-rural welfare gap in India in 1983, 1993-94, 2004-05, and 2011-12 across the entire distribution … India Human Development Surveys …
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Welfare Dynamics in India Over a Quarter Century : Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility During 1987-2012
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020
We analyze the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning 1987/88–2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of the consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these...
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Excess Mortality, Institutionalization and Homelessness Among Status Indians in Canada
Akee, Randall - 2017
In this paper we use confidential-use Census and administrative data to produce the first national estimates of excess mortality, institutionalization and homelessness for the largest Indigenous population in Canada from the ages of 5 to 64. We identify mortality rates at least twice the...
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