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The development of multidimensional poverty in Germany 1985 - 2007

Busch, Christopher; Peichl, Andreas - 2010

This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion. The empirical application relies on indices introduced...

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Miserly developments

Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove - 2008

In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz curve, but can also be seen as a measure of polarization...

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Higher inequality in Latin America: A collateral effect of the pandemic

Acevedo, Ivonne; Castellani, Francesca; Cota, María José - 2022

This study explores the evolution of inequality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic using primary data … available from household and employment surveys collected in 2020. Inequality increased on average by 2 percent between 2019 and … 2020, twice the average annual growth in the inequality indicator that marked the decade of growing inequality in the 1990s …

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Concepts and operationalization of pro-poor growth

Negre, Mario - 2010

Growth that reduces poverty is often considered pro-poor regardless of whether the poor benefit from it more than the non-poor. Such growth could simply be termed poverty-reducing growth. This paper argues that for growth to be pro-poor it should disproportionally benefit the poor. The paper...

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Análisis de la desigualdad de largo plazo en Bolivia 1976-2012

Castro, Luis; Zárate Taborga, Gustavo; Salinas Maceda, … - 2018

Inequality in Bolivia is normally measured through income. However, the construction of a socio-economic index (ISE …), using the four available censuses 1976, 1992, 2001 and 2012, permits to analyze inequality in long-term as well as under a …

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The impact of income adjustments in the CASEN survey on the measurement of inequality in Chile

Bravo, David; Valderrama Torres, José A. - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 43-65

paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a … consistency between what is reported by the CASEN survey and the National Accounts figures in Chile. The results reveal that this … leads to important changes in the top-end of the distribution and to an overestimation in the main inequality indicators in …

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Policy diffusion, domestic politics and social assistance in Lesotho, 1998-2012

Granvik, Maria - 2016

Lesotho is a small Southern African country that has introduced two national cash transfer programmes, the Old Age Pension and the Child Grant Programme. Although Lesotho has followed what has been called the 'Southern African model', the introduction of the Old Age Pension was not the result of...

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What do poor women want? Public employment or cash transfers? Lessons from Argentina

Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2012

The literature on public employment policies such as the job guarantee (JG) and the employer of last resort (ELR) often emphasizes their macroeconomic stabilization effects. But carefully designed and implemented policies like these can also have profound social transformative effects. In...

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A fresh look at an old question: Is pro-poor targeting of cash transfers more effective than universal systems at reducing inequality and poverty?

McKnight, Abigail - 2015

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … and inequality. The strength of the relationship varies between countries and in some cases between the all age and the …

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Volatilidade de renda e a dinâmica da pobreza no Brasil

de Souza, Pedro H. G. Ferreira; Gonçalves, Solange Ledi; … - 2024

This paper investigates poverty dynamics in Brazil, as the frequency and pattern of movements into and out of poverty have significant implications for our understanding of stratification and social mobility processes, as well as for the design of public policies. Our analysis uses microdata...

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