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This paper explores the link between poverty and inequality through an analysis of the poverty impact of changes in … income-component inequality and in between -an within- group inequality. This can help shed light on the theoretical and … empirical linkages between poverty, growth and inequality. It might also help design policies to improve both equity and welfare …
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or that of the change in inequality on poverty. During the last few years, there was a growing interest to perform such …
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DAD is designed to facilitate the analysis and the comparisons of social welfare, inequality, poverty and equity across …
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Previous child health evidence in Kenya has been based on uni-dimensional poverty analysis. Assessing the multiple aspects of child well-being can help, however, reveal complexities and ambiguities in the distribution of child well-being. This paper analyses multidimensional aspects of child...
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Mexico and its effect on inequality and on polarization, and this during the period of 2002-2012. What distinguishes this …-tax income inequality. Based on our estimates, we find a significant increase in the progressivity of the fiscal system over time …, despite the high persistent levels of polarization and inequality in the country. Finally, we find that imposing the common …
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The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate...
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Mexico's indirect tax system. This leads to the identification of several possible pro-poor tax reforms in that country. It …
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system. This leads to the identification of several possible pro-poor tax reforms in that country. It also shows how the pro …
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current consumers and 0.09 percentage points among new users. Inequality would increase by 0.23 Gini points since better off …
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The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003309275