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The Distributional Impact of the Goods and Services Tax: A Reply to Gillespie
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1991
This article presents my response to methodological questions about the incidence and impact of the Canadian Goods and Services Tax raised by W. Irwin Gillespie.
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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
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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 …
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Generalised Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This module illustrates how 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, in many of the cases where ordinary Lorenz curves fail to work After...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257958
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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...
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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 …
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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