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. Further, the reduction of poverty is typically the expressed goal of such countries, and this feature is also taken into … of private and public goods for the poverty minimization case, and compare the results to those derived under a general … to pay attention to when designing poverty alleviation policies. …
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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …
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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931566
poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …
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poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …
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- better cushions the poverty effects of income shocks in a developing economy. We compare the effectiveness of the three … benefit schemes on poverty first conceptually and then by considering two different crisis scenarios, the COVID-19 pandemic … the proxy-means-tested benefits are the most effective in reducing the poverty gap index, a simple categorical benefit is …
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. Further, the reduction of poverty is typically the expressed goal of such countries, and this feature is also taken into … of private and public goods for the poverty minimization case, and compare the results to those derived under a general … to pay attention to when designing poverty alleviation policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280723
analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … in which a higher minimum wage raises poverty, others where it reduces poverty, and yet others in which poverty is … unchanged. We characterize precisely how the poverty effect depends on four parameters: the degree of poverty aversion, the …
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In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a "fair-trade" premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...
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around a constant income distribution to illustrate why standard measures of poverty, built on the intuitions of unchanging …
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