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Patterns and trends of group-based inequality in Brazil

Leivas, Pedro H.; dos Santos, Anderson M. A. - 2016

In this paper, we analyse the patterns and trends of group-based inequalities in Brazil in the past 30 years. Using data from the last four demographic censuses (1980, 1991, 2000, and 2010), we estimate numerous measures to analyse inequalities between different 'ethnic' groups. Our results show...

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Inequality of opportunity in child health in Sudan: Across-region study

Ebaidalla, Ebaidalla Mahjoub - 2019

This study aims to examine the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years of … factors, such as random variations in health. The results of the generalized entropy measures indicate that the overall … inequality in child health is high, particularly in poor and conflict-affected regions. The contribution of inequality of …

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Measuring multidimensional inequality of opportunity

Kobus, Martyna; Kapera, Marek; Peragine, Vitorocco - 2020

Adolescent to Adult Health, we evaluate inequality of opportunity in the USA for the case of three dimensions of individual … outcomes: education, health, and income. …

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Differences in inequality measurement: Ghana case study

Atta-Ankomah, Richmond; Lambon-Quayefio, Monica; Osei, … - 2023

Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently used in Ghana, have become useful in providing quantitative measures of welfare distribution that enable a better understanding of the extent and nature of inequality. From these...

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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 (empirical) distribution of incomes and some appropriately normative distribution (reflecting a perfectly equal distribution of incomes, or a distribution with the smallest mean that...

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Monetary inequality among households in Togo: An illustration based on the decomposition of the Gini coefficient using the Shapley value approach

Noglo, Yawo Agbényégan - 2014

This paper aims at measuring and analysing for the first time inequality in the distribution of expenditures among households in Togo according to the characteristics of household heads. The study is based on the most recent survey (QUIBB 2006) and the monetary well-being indicator used is total...

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The inequality we want: How much is too much?

Krozer, Alice - 2015

A key aspect defining the contemporary income distribution is the (increasing) share the top holds compared to the rest. This paper shows that income concentration increases towards the very top of the distribution, while the shares the middle- and upper-middle-income groups hold, remain stable...

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A fiscal approach to the social contract in subSaharan African countries: Looking for opportunities to strengthen trust in government and tax compliance by analysing citizens' perception of governance

Nichelatti, Enrico; Hiilamo, Heikki - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic showed that many developing countries could not respond effectively to crises due to their limited capacity to diversify their social protection responses. Social protection systems depend mainly on government tax revenue capacity. Raising domestic revenue still represents...

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Effects of the COVID-19 crisis on household food consumption and child nutrition in Mozambique

Squarcina, Margherita; Egger, Eva-Maria - 2022

This study investigates the short-term impacts of an aggregate socioeconomic shock on household food consumption and children's nutrition using the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. In response to the economic downturn, households are expected to adjust their food choices both in...

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Returns to education and wage inequality in Namibia: A gendered analysis

Samahiya, Obrein Muine; Wirba, Ebenezer Lemven - 2023

This paper estimates the returns to education and their implications for wage inequality using data from the 2015/16 Namibia Income and Expenditure Survey. The paper employs recentred influence function regression to analyse the impact of education across the wage distribution and uses a...

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