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perspective of an interdependent relation of the polarization dimensions income and wealth, the extent of multidimensional poverty …Income and wealth are important determinants of individual economic well-being because they are a fundamental resource … for consumption. Due to increasing inequality the distribution of income and wealth has moved more and more into the focus …
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This paper is about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Piketty. It identifies his central macroeconomic claims and examines them, arguing that the contentions are theoretically and empirically unwarranted.
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The Capability Approach has been adopted as a theoretical framework for official Poverty and Wealth Reports by the … contents of the recent 3rd Poverty and Wealth Report. We also explain why the extension of the Capability Approach from poverty … to wealth issues in German reports may be promising also for analyses of capability deprivation in general. Finally, we …
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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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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 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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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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poverty. This generally fails to find any systematic pattern of change in income distribution during recent decades. Neither … conflicts. Among the strategic elements that have contributed to reduced poverty are: an outward-oriented strategy of export … in reducing poverty. Growth can be substantial if the policy and institutional environment is right. …
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