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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...
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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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The present paper is an attempt to examine the levels of deprivation of rural people in terms of their access to basic amenities like, housing, drinking water, sanitation etc. And also it evaluates the degree of relative disadvantage of rural people when compared with their urban counterparts....
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inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …
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, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …
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for poverty reduction and rural development. The data and information were generated from combined descriptive and field …. The application of microcredit to other poverty groups who actually need subsidies and social safety nets would be a … Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC). Its graduated strategy for helping the poor should be applied to the poverty pyramid by …
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established in the region, found poverty persistence, the inequality enlarge and the social mobility limitations, some of the most … strategies impulse. In consequence, this situation positioning the themes of the poverty and the social inequalities in an … outstanding point in the regional development agenda. In this work, was did a recount of the main procedures used to poverty …
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inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837119
, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for …
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There are historical and institutional reasons behind our economic problems like poverty and environmental damage but … establishes a biasing effect on our economy. In case of poverty, economic efforts of poor people are continuously undervalued and …) strategy to be implemented across an economy and eventually across the world to solve poverty problems. This strategy describes …
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