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the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …
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the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …
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The Middle East and North Africa region is known for having low female labor market participation rates as compared with its level of economic development. A possible explanation is that these countries find themselves at the turning point of the U-shape hypothesis when countries transition from...
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The paper compares the distribution of energy and food subsidies across households and the impact of subsidy reforms on household welfare in the Middle East and North Africa region. The analysis uses a unified model and harmonized household data. The results show that the distribution of...
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The paper takes stock of eight country studies and a cross-country analysis to review the experience with subsidy reforms in the Middle East and North Africa region between 2010 and 2014. This unprecedented period of subsidy reforms occurred during a period of extraordinary political changes,...
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