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The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …
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We propose simple graphical methods to identify poverty-reducing marginal reforms of transfer programs. The methods are … based on Program Dominance curves that display cumulative program benefits weighted by powers of poverty gaps. These curves … whether the assessment of marginal program reforms is sensitive to the choice of poverty lines and poverty measures as well as …
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Assessing whether distributional changes are "pro-poor" has become increasingly widespread in academic and policy circles. Starting from relatively general ethical axioms, this paper proposes simple graphical methods to test whether distributional changes are indeed pro-poor. Pro-poor standards...
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This paper documents the impact of Argentina's recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a special … focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple … rule to compensate for the lack of regional poverty figures until 2001, providing consistent series of urban poverty …
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-adjusted income and poverty measures and to analyze their determinants. Taking risk into account increases poverty. The regression …
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This chapter offers a primer on poverty, inequality, and vulnerability analysis and a guide to resources on this topic …. It is written for decision makers who want to define the type of information they need to monitor poverty reduction and …
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This paper deals with tax-policy responses to quasi-hyperbolic discounting. Earlier research on optimal paternalism typically abstracts from capital mobility. If capital is mobile between countries, it may no longer be possible for national governments to control domestic savings via capital...
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This paper documents the impact of Argentina’s recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a special … focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple … rule to compensate for the lack of regional poverty figures until 2001, providing consistent series of urban poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980273
The targeting efficiency and the coverage of social programs for the poor are typically analyzed by partitioning the total population in four mutually exclusive groups: the poor who benefit from a program or policy, the poor who do not benefit, the non-poor who benefit, and the non-poor who do...
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crisis, Senegal had experienced a dramatic reduction of poverty, and this is observed whether one relies on objective … measures of poverty based on consumption or subjective assessments by households. Despite this progress, many household were … food and oil prices has had a negative impact on poverty. Qualitative data collected through focus groups and individual …
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