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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 … and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz Curves to represent inequality is also provided. It highlights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919738
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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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Receptarea soap-opera de către tineri. Studiu de caz: „Beverly Hills”
Branea, Silvia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Besides the theoretical approach, the paper also includes an research conducted with students of the Faculty of Jornalism and Communication at the University of Bucarest. The main objective of this research was to determine the extent to which the media fiction (television series for youth)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257700
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Middle class in Africa: Determinants and Consequences
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This study complements the inclusive growth literature by examining the determinants and consequences of the middle class in a continent where economic growth has been relatively high. The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 33 African countries for a 2010 cross-sectional study. OLS,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264823
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004151
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Is Deprivation Index is a vaible tool to analyze poverty: A case study of Nepal
Bista, Chirangivi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This article focuses deprivation as a means of poverty and income inequality. It studies the factors explaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805048
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Jordan: social protection in a low employment state
Cousins, Mel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
, including data on the level of poverty and inequality in Jordan. Part 2 discusses the challenges and opportunities facing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109452
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Poverty and Access to Maternal Health Care Services in Pakistan: Evidence from Perception Based Data
Haq, Rashida; Arshad, Nabeela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
. The aim of this study is to explore the role of poverty status as a barrier in access to maternal health care services in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259270
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The Religious and Anthropological Perspectives of Development and Poverty
Attia, Sayed Moawad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper examines the role of both religion and anthropology in development and accordingly reducing poverty. Within … and anthropology can play a crucial role in the development process and accordingly lead to reducing poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078685
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Poverty and household demographic behaviour in Pakistan - insights from PLM survey 1979
Mohammad, Irfan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1985
poverty in rural areas of Pakistan. This characterization of poverty is expected to yield insights regarding the link between … incidence of poverty and capacity of the poor to participate in the development process - essentially a function of the power … classification is useful in understanding the nexus between access to assets and poverty of an household. The calorie deficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109407