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Estimating the scale and geography of global poverty now and in the future : how much difference do method and assumptions make?
Edward, Peter; Sumner, Andrew - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 58 (2014), pp. 67-82
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010389670
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Ethnicity and remittances : evidence from Kosovo
Duval, Laetitia; Wolff, François-Charles - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 43 (2015) 2, pp. 334-349
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011566615
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Ecuador : defining and measuring multidimensional poverty, 2006 - 2010
Mideros Mora, Andrés - In: CEPAL review (2012) 108, pp. 49-67
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009738502
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Vulnerability to poverty : Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis
Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John S.; … - 2016
We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502647
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Vulnerability to poverty : Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis
Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John S.; … - 2016
We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516589
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Vulnerability to poverty : Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis
Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John S.; … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542081
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Rethinking the measurement of the middle class : evidence from Egypt
Abu-Ismail, Khalid; Sarangi, Niranjan - 2015
The degree of choice households have over their consumption expenditure is critical in deciding their economic class. Applying our measure to Egyptian household budget surveys, we estimate the population size of the middle class in Egypt and assess their well-being in the period 1995-2011. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479967
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Vulnerability to poverty : Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis
Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John S.; … - 2017
We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098965
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A note on estimating income inequality across countries using PPP exchange rates
Ghosh, Jayati - In: The economic and labour relations review : ELRR 29 (2018) 1, pp. 24-37
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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2018
debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874411