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Human poverty : measuring relative deprivation from basic achievements : a comparative study for 144 world countries in the time span 1990-2010

Lechman, Ewa - 2013

Poverty – differently defined and measured – still remains one the crucial parts of the world development debate. It … an specific approach to poverty issues, treating low incomes as consequence – not a cause – of poverty. The main target … of the work is twofold. Firstly we aim to develop a new complex measure of relative poverty to set the most recent …

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Education policies and taxation without commitment

Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2014 - This version: May 27, 2014

We study the implications of limited commitment on education and tax policies chosen by benevolent governments. Individual wages are determined by both innate abilities and education levels. Consistent with real world practices, the government can decide to subsidize different levels of...

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The deepening of inequalities in Latin America during and after the pandemic

Palacio Ludeña, Maria Gabriela; Pabón, Fabio Andrés Díaz - 2021

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Death and destitution : the global distribution of welfare losses from the COVID-19 pandemic

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Sterck, Olivier; Mahler, … - 2021

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Exploring the dynamics of micro-level consumption inequality in Ghana

Owoo, Nkechi S.; Osei, Robert Darko; Afranie, Stephen - 2020

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Lives and livelihoods : estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic

Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020

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Does hotter temperature increase poverty? : global evidence from subnational data analysis

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Nguyen, Minh Cong; Trong Anh Trinh - 2022

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Does the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affect the poor? : evidence from a six-country survey

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Toan Luu Duc Huynh; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2022

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An alternative measure of economic inequality in the light of optics

Majumder, Amlan - 2014

An ideal state of development, when viewed with fantasy, is nothing but a state or condition where light touches everybody without refraction. The diagonal line of the Lorenz Curve Framework represents such an ideal condition. In the presence of inequality, however, it deviates or refracts from...

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Measuring poverty

Deaton, Angus - In: Understanding poverty, (pp. 3-15). 2006

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