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In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form...
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changes in food expenditures and prices and simulate the welfare losses from food price changes across poverty definitions. We … according to poverty status. On average, the percentage of total income needed to avoid a loss in economic welfare of poor … poverty, objective and subjective. We evaluate the differential responses of poor households vs. non-poor households to …
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, limited evidence exists on the welfare impacts in developing countries, where the negative impacts of climate change and … training and its welfare effects on farm households in Northern Ghana using doubly robust estimators. We find that the … intervention had statistically significant positive effects on agricultural productivity and welfare outcomes. The results show the …
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implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … poverty has declined greatly but by others it has hardly declined at all, even over the fifty years. The global middle class …
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marketplaces, the welfare gains and their distribution from the participation. Our analysis was based on the data of 373 female … transaction, trading, and business. We accounted for the endogeneity issue of online market participation in welfare impact … find that the poor benefit insignificantly from online marketplaces. This raises a concern of increasing welfare inequality …
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barriers to realizing this right. Conventional poverty metrics are designed to adequately capture caloric needs but they are … inadequate for capturing other essential nutritional requirements. We propose national poverty lines based on the cost of a … healthy diet and explore their key metrics such as headcount ratios and the poverty gap. According to these poverty lines 2 …
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According to a widely held belief, ?all who are able to work, should work?. We consider this statement within a framework of non-linear taxation. The crucial difference between our model and the standard model is that the government can distinguish between productive persons and the disabled. A...
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, was to reduce the lack of jobs and to increase welfare. Facing persistently increasing unemployment rates from then on … disputed reform of the German social welfare system. By characterising effects and defects of the German welfare system, we … valuation of labour. To conclude, potential welfare and employment effects under the new sys-tem are discussed. …
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's and overall welfare levels, at a plausible degree of economies of scale (i. e., Buhmann et al.'s · > 0.65) the poverty …In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition … approach. This method differentiates between various social groups in the sense that for each group a separate poverty line is …
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