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The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using … equity with respect to financing and access is undermined. It is emphasized that reducing poverty and income inequality …
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In this paper we apply two statistical models to the measurement of polarization to Israeli income data over the past decade in order to empirically detect income classes as sub-populations of incomes concentrated around an optimal number of poles. The statistical models compared are a...
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In this paper we study income polarization by first comparing the efficiency of two statistical models to identify the number of poles in the income distribution empirically. The statistical models used are a multi-resolution analysis (MRA) and a log-normal approach (LNA). We then apply the...
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poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … economic growth is crucial for poverty reduction. Higher per capita incomes tend to favour poverty reduction, while higher …
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the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …
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benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of … between inequality and growth in the post World War II period using WIDER inequality database. Regression results suggest that …
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services sector is split up into formal and informal activities to account for the fact that poverty is largely confined to the …
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, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and poverty rates by almost one-third. However, adjusting for differences in needs for public services across population … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. …
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Poverty Impact Analysis in individual countries. The model combines the optimizing behavior of CGE models with the asset …
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countries with respect to poverty reduction, the distribution of income within countries, the distribution of income between …
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