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Using India’s National Sample Survey data on consumption expenditure by households this paper examines how access to affordability of electricity services have fared under power sector reform programme that was pursued in the of State Orissa (India). To draw a comparative picture of Orissa...
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. The relationship between polarization, inequality and poverty is analyzed via the index. First, polarization measure for …
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Corruption increases inequality in the society (Gupta et al, 1998) by reducing economic growth, biasing the tax system … then as democracy grows corruption decreases. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between inequality … and democracy in two directions, both the effect of democracy on inequality and the effect of inequality on democracy. It …
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The paper defines economic security as a country’s ability to re distribute incomes through a strong governance structure by practicing rule of law, eliminating corruption and a government that acts as a facilitator by formulating effective fiscal and monetary policy and regulation. The...
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This paper illustrates how Lorenz 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. After highlighting some drawbacks of using specific functional forms of the Social...
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wage inequality and income inequality whereas autocracy is associated with higher level of wage inequalities but its impact …
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The study examined the linkages between inequality in household expenditure components and total inequality and poverty …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between …-component inequality. Specifically, inequality in education and health expenditure components were the largest contributors to overall …
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’s principle. In these conditions it can be noticed if the schemes, deducted in the analytical decomposition’s basis of the … standard actions, can be used in the more precise and easier measurement than through empirical calculations in order to … politic area (commercial politics), also of the productivity effect from more exact connections, decompounding the measurement …
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concepts and indices to explore the growth, poverty and inequality nexus in Indonesia over the period 2002-2012. We find a … for other factors to account for around two-fifths of total household expenditure inequality in Indonesia. If poverty … also take into account the possible impact of growth on inequality. These findings indicate the importance of a set of …
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education inequality, dominance is declared for the south-centre pair only. A sub group decomposition analysis finds that the …The paper looks at poverty and inequality across areas in Malawi. The focus is on both monetary (consumption) and non … in the three dimensions regardless of poverty line chosen. Stochastic inequality dominance tests find that the north and …
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