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Okun's and Barro's Misery Index as an Alternative Poverty Assessment Tool. Recent Estimations for European Countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056555
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Variation of famliy income, inequality and poverty in Brazil in the period 2001 to 2005
Guimarães, P. W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This article investigates the relationships among economic growth, income distribution and poverty in Brazil during the … variations in the poverty indicators and the main components that answer for this variation - decomposition model;another that … simulates the effects of the variation of the income and the concentration indicators on the poverty level - model of elasticity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835994
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Cross-country comparisons of pensioners’ incomes
Disney, Richard; Whitehouse, Edward - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
This report surveys a dozen international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution and the elderly in OECD … there remain pockets of poverty among the elderly, most studies show that the old are represented proportionally or under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061663
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Openness and Inequality in Developing Countries: A New Look at the Evidence
Gourdon, Julien - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Integration to world markets is expected to help developing countries to access prosperity. At the same time, increasing opportunities to trade are likely to affect income distribution and whether or not increasing openness to trade is accompanied by a reduction or an increase inequality is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621315
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Charting Income Inequality: The Lorenz Curve
Bellù, Lorenzo G.; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality measurement. A short conceptual background, a step-by-step procedure and a simple numerical example illustrate how to calculate and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919738
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Crossing Generalised Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper illustrates how Crossing Generalised Lorenz (GL) curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. It starts by illustrating two alternative income distributions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924809
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Poverty, Income Distribution and Social Development in Lahore
Hyder, Kalim; Sikander, Muhammad Usman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper we present a comparative analysis of poverty and income inequality prevalent in the seven towns of Lahore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004155
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Islam and Human Development
Shaikh, Salman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The paper aims to present the Islamic appraisal of established theories in academic literature of development economics, both in classical and neo-classical economics. The paper also explains the Islamic concept of human development and shows it to be more welfare maximizing to humans in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107426
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Remittances, Poverty and Income Inequality: What relations in rural Morocco?
Bouoiyour, Jamal; Miftah, Amal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
For several decades the fight against poverty has become a major policy concern for national governments and … international institutions. In this paper, we examine the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality by using an original …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109783
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Assessing the impacts of agricultural policy and structural reforms on income distribution and poverty in Brazil
Azzoni, Carlos Roberto; Menezes, Tatiane; Silveira, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
income distribution and poverty levels within those countries.The objective of this study is to produce an estimate of the … impacts of agricultural policy and structural reforms on income distribution and poverty in Brazil, considering not only the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112776