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We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to disentangle the policy effect from changing market incomes. Over the period 1979-2007, the cumulative policy effect aggravated inequality by increasing the income share of the top...
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We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle the direct policy effect from the effect of changing market incomes. Over the whole period 1979-2007 the cumulative tax policy effect aggravated income inequality...
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Multiple Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and …
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Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and Latin …
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The multidimensionality of poverty is now widely acknowledged. Some recent studies in developed countries show that … there is a weak correlation between the monetary poverty approach and the household's subjective perception of their well … reference comparison group? Finally, how much weights do have new poverty dimensions such as vulnerability and social or …
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Movements in and out of poverty are of core interest to both policymakers and economists. Yet the panel data needed to … analyze such movements are rare. In this paper we build on the methodology used to construct poverty maps to show how repeated … cross-sections of household survey data can allow inferences to be made about movements in and out of poverty. We illustrate …
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(english) The multidimensionality of poverty is now fully acknowledged. A number of studies show a weak correlation … between the monetary approach to poverty and household's subjective perception of wellbeing. Recent studies in developed … well-being (social origin, spatial inequalities in the district)? Finally, how important are the new dimensions of poverty …
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-economic growth and the reduction of income inequality on monetary poverty. Our results emphasise the potential importance of the … population living in absolute poverty by 2015. The first section analyses the factors which lead to placing poverty reduction at … the core of development policies. The second section conducts a survey on the impact of growth and inequality on poverty …
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