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Poverty and time
Bossert, Walter; Chakravarty, Satya; Conchita D’Ambrosio - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 10 (2012) 2, pp. 145-162
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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient …
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An individual-centered approach to multidimensional poverty: The cases of Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
Franco-Correa A. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This paper deals with the problem of selecting the unit of analysis in multidimensional poverty analyses, which is a central decision to take, both from academic and normative points of view. The paper compares the results of an individual-level Multidimensional Poverty Index for Chile,...
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On the Concept of Equity in Opportunity
Son, Hyun H. - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 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/10009291917
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Group Inequalities and ‘Scanlan’s Rule’: Two Apparent Conundrums and How We Might Address Them
Lambert, Peter J.; Subramanian, S. - Madras School of Economics - 2014
In situations where an adverse social outcome affects disadvantaged and advantaged groups in society differently, the rates at which those groups experience favorable or adverse outcomes tend to be systematically related to the overall prevalence of the outcome. Specifically, as the overall...
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Yet, two more revisions to the Human Development Index
Beja, Edsel Jr. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) was presented in the 20th anniversary edition of the Human Development Reports, in 2010. In using a penalty setup for the calculations of the IHDI, however, the results overestimate the adjustments on the HDI. This paper suggests a revision...
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India Protection Index
Shukla, Rajesh; Rai, Anil; Monga, Nitasha - In: Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research 4 (2010) 3, pp. 339-367
The success and failure of any democratic government is gauged in terms of how effectively it has fulfilled its constitutional obligation of enhancing social and economic well-being, particularly the common man. While developed economies use a set of indices to measure well-being, a systematic...
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Local Public Transport Service and Equity: an Analysis at Regional Basis
Bigerna S. - In: Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno (2011) 4, pp. 919-944
The paper analyses the issue of vertical equity relative to Local Public Transportation service with particular … attention to resources and/or sacrifices allocation among different users groups. The evaluation of vertical equity can be … components technique. There emerges a scenario of regional differences of equity characterized by the Centre and North …
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Bootstraps not Band-Aids: Poverty, Equity and Social Policy in Latin America
Birdsall, Nancy; Szekely, Miguel - 2003
After a decade of economic reforms that dramatically altered the structure of economies in Latin America, making them more open and more competitive, and a decade of substantial increases in public spending on education, health and other social programs in virtually all countries, poverty and...
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Relative Injustice Aversion
Moreno-Garrido, Luis José Blas - Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos y Teoría … - 2013
I propose a new utility function based on the relative aversion to injustice to explain why, in classical bargaining games, classical equilibria do not hold when money is not windfall, but it is result of the effort.
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