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sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty distribution among various localities and …
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This paper summarizes the main results on changes in poverty and inequality in Argentina and the world in the last three decades, and discusses the progresses made by the Economics field in that period toward a better understanding of the distributional issues.
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effects of the economic inequality definitions on location and dispersion of the income distribution. Log-normal, log …We present three generalized, empirical, economic inequality definitions for the empirical dominance of the income … distribution of Population 1 over that of Population 2 with respect to their n-person economy in terms of a general transformation …
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ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on income distribution trends from 1970 to 1980 and the implications for employment … policy, incomes policy and basic needs satisfaction in Fiji - discusses poverty, household income and consumer expenditure …
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In the energy-rich provinces of Western Canada, inequality rose over the past two decades while poverty declined, begging the question of whether the recent energy boom was a contributing factor. This study uses local labor market variation in energy extraction intensity to identify these...
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This paper updates the distribution of global poverty data and makes projections up to 2020. The paper asks the … distribution. …
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middle class either. We define them as the vulnerable “strugglers”, people living in households with daily income per capita … about a third of the total population. We argue that in many upper-middle income countries of the region, the strugglers …
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This paper shows the differences between how benefits are estimated and how they are distributed, calls attention to the policy variables that are crucial in explaining certain distributional outcomes, explores the importance of looking at the demand for characteristics when trying to benefit...
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