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The measurement of poverty intensity we use was initially advocated by Sen (1976), and modified recently by Shorrocks … Shorrocls, we refer henceforth to the SSR index. Section 2 of this article begins by discussing the SST index of poverty … intensity and its decomposition into the poverty rate, the average poverty gap ratio among the poor and the overall Gini index …
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The measurement of poverty intensity we use was initially advocated by Sen (1976), and modified recently by Shorrocks … Shorrocls, we refer henceforth to the SSR index. Section 2 of this article begins by discussing the SST index of poverty … intensity and its decomposition into the poverty rate, the average poverty gap ratio among the poor and the overall Gini index …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005618819
The Health, Inequalities and Social Breakdown (SIRS) survey carried out in Antananarivo in April 2003 on a representative sample of 2,807 people, is part of an international research programme designed to compare the relationships between health, inequalities and social breakdowns in different...
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The Health, Inequalities and Social Breakdown (SIRS) survey carried out in Antananarivo in April 2003 on a representative sample of 2,807 people, is part of an international research programme designed to compare the relationships between health, inequalities and social breakdowns in different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071900
This study uses the Viet Nam Living Standards Survey of 1992-93 to examine the association between household living standards and the level of access to various infrastructural services.
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The quantitative and qualitative approaches to poverty measurement and analysis have often been treated by … on poverty. The main conclusion of this paper is that sole reliance on either the quantitative or the qualitative …
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This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a …
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Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program is one of the most important anti-poverty policies worldwide. In this document … program’s impact on output, human capital, poverty and income inequality. I also study its welfare implications and its … effects on the intergenerational transmission of poverty. The quantitative analysis reveals that a long-term implementation of …
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Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program is one of the most important anti-poverty policies worldwide. In this document … program’s impact on output, human capital, poverty and income inequality. I also study its welfare implications and its … effects on the intergenerational transmission of poverty. The quantitative analysis reveals that a long-term implementation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106763
The present paper reviews the different methods in practice to measure the human development or deprivation, which, in fact, is an emerging part of the development discourse. Specifically it deals with the problems of comparability, aggregation and weighing the dimension/indicators in composite...
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