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Social groups and economic poverty: A problem in measurement

Subramanian, S. - 2004

. The implications of directly incorporating group disparities into the measurement of poverty for poverty comparisons and …

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Indicators of inequality and poverty

Subramanian, S. - 2004

This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … functionings. In addition to an introductory and a concluding part, the paper has four sections. The first of these, on measurement … rankings; poverty measures and anti-poverty policy; and other issues in the measurement of poverty. The third section considers …

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A framework for incorporating environmental indicators to the measurement of human well-being

Zaim, Osman - 2005

environmental indicators to the measurement of human well-being. Furthermore this study also proposes an improvement index which …

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Inequality in historical perspective

Jolly, Richard - 2006

Adam Smith, Tom Paine, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx were all bold and outspoken about the injustices of extreme inequality, nationally and internationally. Yet by almost every standard, global inequality has grown substantially since they were writing, and national income inequality also over...

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Trading inequality? Insights from the two globalizations in Latin America

Arroyo Abad, A. Leticia; Santos-Paulino, Amelia U. - 2009

Trade flows among countries have increased dramatically during the last globalization episode creating new winners and losers between and within countries. This paper revisits the contested topic of the impact of globalization on within-country inequality in Latin America from a historical...

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Entrepreneurship and income inequality in Southern Ethiopia

Kimhi, Ayal - 2009

This paper uses inequality decomposition techniques in order to analyse the consequences of entrepreneurial activities to household income inequality in southern Ethiopia. A uniform increase in entrepreneurial income reduces per capita household income inequality. This implies that encouraging...

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Financial development and income inequality in rural China 1991 - 2000

Liang, Zhicheng - 2006

Financial development can exert a significant influence on the distribution of income. In this paper, using Chinese provincial data over the period of 1991-2000 and applying the generalized method of moment (GMM) techniques, we investigate the relationship between finance and inequality in rural...

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Trade liberalization and the self-employed in Mexico

Popli, Gurleen K. - 2008

In this paper I examine the trend in income inequality and poverty among the selfemployed workers in Mexico over the last two decades (1984–2002). This is the period over which Mexico opened its economy to the global market through trade and investment liberalization. For the first decade...

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Health improvements and health inequality during the last 40 years

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Menchini, Leonardo - 2006

This paper juxtaposes changes over the last forty years in income growth and distribution with the mortality changes recorded at the aggregate level in about 170 countries and at the individual level in 26 countries with at least two demographic and health surveys covering the last twenty years....

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The Finnish developmental state and its growth regime

Jäntti, Markus; Vartiainen, Juhana - 2009

This paper reviews Finland's growth strategy in the postwar decades. Finland was able to initiate an impressive mobilization of resources during this period, reflected mostly in a high rate of capital accumulation for manufacturing industries. This was achieved by an unorthodox combination of...

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