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This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …
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in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …
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There are historical and institutional reasons behind our economic problems like poverty and environmental damage but … establishes a biasing effect on our economy. In case of poverty, economic efforts of poor people are continuously undervalued and …) strategy to be implemented across an economy and eventually across the world to solve poverty problems. This strategy describes …
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, demography and institutions). Thus, at all stages of development, forcing economic production to spread evenly across areas is … response should be comprehensively total: institutions that unite, infrastructure that connects, interventions that target …
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continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, we use a framework that rigorously assesses the impact of growth on the poor … over a range of poverty lines. Using National sample Surveys on consumption expenditure, we show that while growth has …
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This paper provides an approach to poverty measurement that relies on the interpretation of poverty as a welfare loss … introducing the notion of “distributive impact of poverty” (a measure of the poverty loss due to the inequality among the poor …). We show that a welfare inequality measure can be expressed as the sum of the average individual welfare poverty plus the …
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The interplay of between- and within-country inequality, the relative contribution of each to overall global inequality, and the implications this has for who benefits from recent global growth (and by how much), has become a significant avenue for economic research. Drawing conclusions from...
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Demographic disparities between the rates of occurrence of an adverse economic outcome can be observed to be increasing even as general social improvements supposedly lead towards the elimination of the adverse outcome in question. Scanlan (2006) noticed this tendency and developed a...
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the missing labor income through imputation methods. The official measurement of labor poverty indicates an increase from … 42% to 53% in the 2005-2012 period, but poverty measured with imputed income increases only from 36% to 40%, a much lower …
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This research seeks to evaluate the effects of growth and inequality on the dynamics of poverty in Tunisia from 1985 to … poverty into contribution of growth and a contribution due to the redistribution, according to the decomposition approaches … (2001), and the Poverty Equivalent Growth Rate, suggested by Kakwani and Son (2002), are applied to assess the degree of pro …
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