Similar Search Results

Measuring Changes in Multidimensional Inequality - An Empirical Application

Nilsson, Therese - 2007

During the past decade there has been a growing opinion of including more than an income perspective in the examination of inequality. As a result a broad theoretical literature on the subject of multidimensional inequality is present. This can mainly be divided into three different parts:...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208517

Growth without Poverty Reduction? Examining Micro-Macro Links in Tanzania

Danielson, Anders - 2004

Studying the relation between economic growth and income poverty reduction without taking changes in the distribution of income into consideration is like setting up Othello without Iago in the play. Without any further references to Shakespeare, this paper examines the relations between poverty...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208465

Multi-dimensional poverty index and tackling interlocking deprivations in the Arab States

Nawar, Abdel-Hameed - 2014

Research into multidimensional poverty has gathered momentum in the last half decade, most notably in the aftermath of the global food and financial crises of 2007-2008. It has gained further momentum since the UNDP-OPHI launched the 2010 Human Development Report (HDR) and more recently as part...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335894

The poor, the prosperous and the 'inbetweeners': A fresh perspective on global society, inequality and growth

Edward, Peter; Sumner, Andy - 2014

What has happened to inequality between and within countries since 1990? In this paper we explore who have been the winners and losers from global growth since 1990. We find that falls in total global inequality in the last 30 years are predominantly attributable to rising prosperity in China....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335897

Vulnerability to poverty: Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis

Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Ksennia; Lane, John Landon; … - 2016

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011687924

Investigating the Origins of Differentiated Vulnerabilities to Climate Change and their Effects on Wellbeing

Cappelli, Federica - 2020

The paper traces the evolution the concept of socioeconomic vulnerability to climate change has followed in the academic and scientific debate. The recent recognition of vulnerability as a social construction has shifted the focus of the analysis on the dimension of adaptive capacity, i.e. the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419722

The 2030 sustainable development goals and measuring gender inequality: A technical articulation for Asia-Pacific

Aggarwal, Bhavya; Chakraborty, Lekha S. - 2016

Against the backdrop of the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, this paper analyzes the measurement issues in gender-based indices constructed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and suggests alternatives for choice of variables, functional form, and weights. While the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784649

Inequality of life chances and the measurement of social immobility

Silber, Jacques - 2007

presented. The first dataset comes from a survey conducted in France in 1998 and allows one to measure the degree of social …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266638

The Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being, France, 1989 and 2000

Masterson, Thomas; Zacharias, Ajit; Eren, Selçuk; … - 2011

We construct estimates of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being for France for the years 1989 and 2000. We … the level and distribution of household well-being using both measures for France as a whole and for subgroups of the … France for both years. This is, again, contrary to conventional wisdom. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281739

Living to Save Taxes

Eliason, Marcus; Ohlsson, Henry - 2007

Does taxation affect the timing of death? This is important as an example of how behavior might be affected by economic incentives. We study how three changes in Swedish inheritance taxation 2004-2005 have affected daily all-cause mortality. Our first main result is that mortality decreased by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321562

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last