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Poverty and Time
Bossert, Walter; Chakravarty, Satya R.; Conchita … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008
We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. In contrast to earlier contributions, we assign importance to the persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a class of individual intertemporal poverty measures reflecting this feature. In addition, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413397
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Poverty and time
Bossert, Walter; Chakravarty, Satya R.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - In: Journal of economic inequality 10 (2012) 2, pp. 145-162
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009625927
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Poverty and Time
Bossert, Walter; Chakravarty, Satya R.; d’Ambrosio, … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. Our aim is to capture the importance of persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a corresponding individual intertemporal poverty measure. Our first axiom requires that intertemporal poverty is identical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500391
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Quantifying the Distribution of Environmental Outcomes for Regulatory Environmental Justice Analysis
Maguire, Kelly B.; Sheriff, Glenn - National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), … - 2011
regulatory EJ analysis, reviewing past approaches to quantifying distributional equity, and discussing the potential for adapting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650452
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A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - 2014
poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352313
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A survey of inclusive growth policy
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk; Wood, Jacob - In: Economies 7 (2019) 3, pp. 1-18
Background: Since the latter part of the 20th Century, countries have been particularly challenged by the trade-off that exists between delivering generous welfare provisions and strong economic growth. Such dynamics have stimulated a need to better understand the causes of income inequality so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013199577
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On the Concept of Equity in Opportunity
Son, Hyun H. - 2011
Measuring the equity of opportunity in a given society is an essential ingredient in the formulation of policies and … programs that promote inclusive growth. In this paper, equity of opportunity is defined and measured through the theoretical …, respectively. The concepts of relative and absolute measures of equity of opportunity are then introduced and a social opportunity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507307
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On the concept of equity in opportunity
Son, Hyun H. - 2011
Measuring the equity of opportunity in a given society is an essential ingredient in the formulation of policies and … programs that promote inclusive growth. In this paper, equity of opportunity is defined and measured through the theoretical …, respectively. The concepts of relative and absolute measures of equity of opportunity are then introduced and a social opportunity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379832
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A survey of the role of fiscal policy in addressing income inequality, poverty reduction and inclusive growth
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - 2014
poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345543
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A survey of inclusive growth policy
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk; Wood, Jacob - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 3/65, pp. 1-18
Background: Since the latter part of the 20th Century, countries have been particularly challenged by the trade-off that exists between delivering generous welfare provisions and strong economic growth. Such dynamics have stimulated a need to better understand the causes of income inequality so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025364