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This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...
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In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
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the missing labor income through imputation methods. The official measurement of labor poverty indicates an increase from … 42% to 53% in the 2005-2012 period, but poverty measured with imputed income increases only from 36% to 40%, a much lower …
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decomposition. Results in deprivation analysis and inequalities related reveal some new insights about the poverty situation in the … country, which contrasts with the results available from traditional poverty analysis. We observe respectively, high …
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The existing literature on poverty has discussed about the conflict between income-based measure and nutrition … status driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income based and nutrition based measures of poverty. …
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The conflict between the income based and nutrition based estimates of poverty is a widely debated issue in economic … function can reconcile the conflict between the two measures of poverty. In addition, a simple general equilibrium model using …
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The commonly used poverty indices measure the overall level of poverty in a society but fail to capture the … differential intensity across different socioeconomic groups. This paper proposes a new measure, Inequality of Poverty Index … poverty across different subgroups. It can be used to determine the major socioeconomic factors …
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Indonesia has achieved well-documented and drastic improvements in average incomes and in the reduction of poverty …. Much research has discussed this progress. This paper adds to the literature with a new perspective. We discuss poverty in … Indonesia using the international poverty lines ($1.25, $2 and we add $10/day). We generate historic estimates of poverty and …
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The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty in the context of … 1964–2011. The regression model encompassing the impact of economic growth and inequality on poverty reflects that a 1 …% increase in income while keeping the distribution constant reduces poverty around 0.162% in rural, 0.256% in urban, 0.471% in …
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This paper extends the previous literature on the normative links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare … and inequality. We show how, when the range of possible poverty lines is unbounded above, a robust ranking of absolute … poverty may be interpreted as a robust ranking of social welfare, and a robust ranking of relative poverty may be interpreted …
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