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This paper studies poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean from a multidimensional perspective, exploiting the …”. Another finding is that the US$ 1 line appears to be a reasonable cut-off value to measure food deprivation. Copyright …
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This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … rankings; poverty measures and anti-poverty policy; and other issues in the measurement of poverty. The third section considers … perspective, it briefly reviews measurement concerns relating to generalized indices of deprivation and disparity, and it …
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strain items with income poverty at seventy per cent of median income, identifies those exposed to generalised deprivation … Living Conditions (EU-SILC) in order to develop a measure of consistent poverty that overcomes some of the difficulties … associated with the original indicators employed as targets in the Irish National Anti-Poverty Strategy. Our analysis leads us to …
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This paper employs a statistical approach to identify which sectors of the US economy are currently the most suitable indicators for monitoring the recovery. A comprehensive list of potential leading indicators is constructed through the application of economic theory. By applying a detailed...
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ILO pub-WEP pub-PREALC pub. Working paper, econometric model for the measurement of poverty and basic needs, partic. In … Latin America - considers absolute vs. Relative deprivation and attitudes and consumer behaviour associated with low income …
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; the impact of economic reform on British productivity growth; productivity and policy reform in Australia; the measurement …
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Cadogan and Lee (this issue) discuss the problems inherent in modeling formative latent variables as endogenous. In response to the commentaries by Rigdon (this issue) and Finn and Wang (this issue), the present article extends the discussion on formative measures. First, the article shows that...
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As we move from the concept of empowerment to its measurement, it is natural that the complexity in the concept passes … into its empirical expression in multiples. The problem is compounded as the concept is a multidimensional one. Several …
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intersection approaches that have characterized many earlier studies. Multidimensional poverty is characterized and decomposed in … levels and patterns of multidimensional poverty and social exclusion. …As awareness of the limitations of relying solely on income to measure poverty and social exclusion has become more …
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