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Rethinking the measurement of the middle class: Evidence from Egypt
Abu-Ismail, Khalid; Sarangi, Niranjan - 2015
people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418618
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Anti-discrimination measures in education: A comparative policy analysis
Lenhardt, Amanda; Page, Ella; Sarwar, Moizza Binat; … - 2017
Efforts to tackle discrimination in access to basic services have shown mixed results in different country settings. This study examines the positive and negative outcomes attributed to anti-discrimination measures adopted in different country contexts and analyses the factors contributing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688578
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Poverty, inequality, and growth: Trends, policies, and controversies
Ferreira, Ines A.; Salvucci, Vincenzo; Tarp, Finn - 2022
Reducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations … evaluation of the main stylized facts concerning poverty, inequality, and growth. It will uncover existing trends, put …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013364552
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Poverty, inequality, and prices in post-apartheid South Africa
Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray; Oosthuizen, Morné - 2014
Post-apartheid poverty and inequality trends have been the subject of intensive analysis, yet relatively little … attention has been devoted to the impact of differential price movements on the measurement of poverty and inequality. This … paper aims to tell the story of the evolution of both money-metric and non-money-metric poverty and inequality in post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494214
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Social policies or private solidarity? The equalizing role of migration and remittances in El Salvador
Acevedo, Carlos; Cabrera, Maynor - 2012
This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319809
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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries: Are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andy - 2013
The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319824
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On a distance function-based inequality measure in the spirit of the Bonferroni and Gini Indices
Subramanian, S. - 2012
A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual … incomes, or a distribution with the smallest mean that is compatible with a complete absence of poverty). Real analysis offers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319854
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Mozambique: Off-track or temporarily sidelined?
Arndt, Channing; Jones, E. Samuel; Tarp, Finn - 2015
Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s … agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in measured consumption poverty. We expect progress in poverty reduction to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418642
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Estimating utility-consistent poverty in Ethiopia, 2000-11
Stifel, David; Woldehanna, Tassew - 2015
We adapt the standardized Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software (PLEASe) computer code stream based on Arndt and … Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011. Several data …-related issues create challenges to estimating the spatial and temporal distribution of poverty in a manner that meets both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440669
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Horizontal and intersecting inequalities in Mozambique: 1997-2017
Santos, Ricardo; Egger, Eva-Maria; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2021
This study seeks to add to the research on inequality in least developed countries, namely in Mozambique, by measuring and mapping indicators of horizontal wealth inequality along geographic regions and ethnolinguistic identities. Using census data for 1997, 2007, and 2017, we identify possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651177