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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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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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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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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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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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Disadvantage and discrimination in self-employment: Caste gaps in earnings in Indian small businesses

Deshpande, Ashwini; Sharma, Smriti - 2015

Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, we estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses owned by historically marginalized social groups known as Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCSTs), and non-SCSTs across the earnings distribution. We find clear differences in...

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Innovation at the World Bank: Selective perspectives over three decades 1975 - 2005

Grawe, Roger - 2013

The World Bank is uniquely positioned to identify and disseminate innovative development practices. Based on his thirty-year experience as a World Bank staff member, the author takes an institutional perspective on the innovation climate at the World Bank focusing on dominant development...

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Evaluation of non-governmental development organizations

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2014

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are now widely used in development economics. However, their use is often resisted by non-governmental development organizations. The objections they raise differ between the three types of activities of such non-governmental organizations (NGOs): capacity...

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