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Poverty and Time
Bossert, Walter; Chakravarty, Satya R.; Conchita … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008
We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. In contrast to earlier contributions, we assign importance to the persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a class of individual intertemporal poverty measures reflecting this feature. In addition, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413397
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Poverty and time
Bossert, Walter; Chakravarty, Satya; Conchita D’Ambrosio - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 10 (2012) 2, pp. 145-162
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010866700
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Poverty and Time
Bossert, Walter; Chakravarty, Satya R.; d’Ambrosio, … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. Our aim is to capture the importance of persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a corresponding individual intertemporal poverty measure. Our first axiom requires that intertemporal poverty is identical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500391
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Quantifying the Distribution of Environmental Outcomes for Regulatory Environmental Justice Analysis
Maguire, Kelly B.; Sheriff, Glenn - National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), … - 2011
regulatory EJ analysis, reviewing past approaches to quantifying distributional equity, and discussing the potential for adapting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650452
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A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884285
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An individual-centered approach to multidimensional poverty: The cases of Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
Franco-Correa A. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This paper deals with the problem of selecting the unit of analysis in multidimensional poverty analyses, which is a central decision to take, both from academic and normative points of view. The paper compares the results of an individual-level Multidimensional Poverty Index for Chile,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004577
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On the Concept of Equity in Opportunity
Son, Hyun H. - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2011
Measuring the equity of opportunity in a given society is an essential ingredient in the formulation of policies and … programs that promote inclusive growth. In this paper, equity of opportunity is defined and measured through the theoretical …, respectively. The concepts of relative and absolute measures of equity of opportunity are then introduced and a social opportunity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291917
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DAD: a Software for Poverty and Distributive Analysis
Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2006
DAD is designed to facilitate the analysis and the comparisons of social welfare, inequality, poverty and equity across … reforms to these programs) on poverty and equity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696365
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Group Inequalities and ‘Scanlan’s Rule’: Two Apparent Conundrums and How We Might Address Them
Lambert, Peter J.; Subramanian, S. - Madras School of Economics - 2014
In situations where an adverse social outcome affects disadvantaged and advantaged groups in society differently, the rates at which those groups experience favorable or adverse outcomes tend to be systematically related to the overall prevalence of the outcome. Specifically, as the overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011093767
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Gini index, inequality comparisons and maximin axiom: a paradox
MESNARD, Louis de - Laboratoire d'Économie de Dijon (LEDI), Université de … - 1999
Inequality is appreciated only through a relevant measure, traditionally the Gini index, but this one presents a weakness that prevents to consider it as valid: to a same Gini may correspond many distributions. For the most simple case, a concentration curve with two linear segments, a criterion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005579056