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Global High-Resolution Estimates of the United Nations Human Development Index Using Satellite Imagery and Machine-learning
Sherman, Luke; Proctor, Jonathan; Druckenmiller, Hannah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) is arguably the most widely used alternative to gross domestic product for measuring national development. This is in large part due to its multidimensional nature, as it incorporates not only income, but also education and health. However, the...
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Real-Time Poverty, Material Well-Being, and the Child Tax Credit
Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …
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Growth Elasticities of Poverty Reduction
Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to … key macroeconomic aggregates. Numerous insights are found in Kakwani's elasticities. However, the literature on poverty … and growth since then has revealed that the impacts of economic growth on poverty, as observed in practice, can be …
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Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth
Azzimonti, Marina; Karpuska, Laura; Mihalache, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Entitlement programs have become an increasing component of total government spending in the US over the last six decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality....
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Optimal Income Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This article explores subjects in optimal income taxation characterized by recent research interest, practical importance in light of concerns about inequality, potential for misunderstanding, and prospects for advancement. Throughout, the analysis highlights paths for further investigation....
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Hacia nuevas políticas sociales en América Latina : crecimiento, clases medias y derechos sociales
Solimano, Andrés - In: Revista CEPAL (2005) 87, pp. 45-60
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Ecuador : definición y medición multidimensional de la pobreza, 2006 - 2010
Mideros Mora, Andrés - In: Revista CEPAL (2012) 108, pp. 51-70
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El estado y la pobreza en Costa Rica
Taylor-Dormond, Marvin - In: Revista CEPAL (1991), pp. 133-150
El liberalismo vigente en America Latina puede inducir a confiar a la mano invisible del mercado la tarea redistributiva. En el presente articulo se intenta contribuir al acervo de conocimientos sobre el papel del estado en materia de transferencia de recursos y atencion a los pobres en Costa...
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Crecimiento, justicia distributiva y política social
Solimano, Andrés - In: Revista CEPAL (1998), pp. 31-44
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Distribucion del ingreso, pobreza y gasto social en America Latina
Ocampo Gaviria, José Antonio - In: Revista CEPAL (1998), pp. 7-14
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