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Poverty and time
Bossert, Walter; Chakravarty, Satya R.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2010
We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. Our aim is to capture the importance of … illustrate our new index with an application to EU countries. -- Intertemporal poverty measurement ; equity …
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Alternative Weighting Structures for Multidimensional Poverty Assessment
Cavapozzi, Danilo; Han, Wei; Miniaci, Raffaele - 2014
structures affect the measurement of poverty for the population of over 50s in ten European countries. Further, we show that in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147454
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Chapter 6 Income poverty in advanced countries
Jäntti, Markus; Danziger, Sheldon - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 309-378). 2000
This chapter reviews definitional issues that arise in assessing the extent of, and change in, poverty in western industrialized countries, including the choice of resource, level of poverty line and appropriate adjustments for the size and type of the income-sharing unit. The chapter also...
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Multidimensional welfare in districts of Zambia : a first order dominance approach
Masumbu, Gibson; Mahrt, Kristi - 2014
In this paper we make welfare comparisons among districts of Zambia using multidimensional well-being indicators observed at the household level using the first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. in 2012. This approach allows welfare comparisons without making any assumptions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418144
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Estimating multidimensional poverty in Zambia
Mahrt, Kristi; Masumbu, Gibson - 2015
In this paper, we apply the first-order dominance (FOD) approach to assessing multidimensional welfare to analyse multidimensional poverty in Zambia in 1996, 2006, and 2010. In addition to evaluating welfare across time and space, we extend the methodology to evaluate welfare by rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412515
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Poverty is multidimensional : but do we really need a multidimensional poverty index?
Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Vizmanos, Jana Flor V. - 2018
measurement of multidimensional poverty in the Philippines should depend on a careful investigation on whether there is much value … measurement should be. This study examines discusses various issues regarding the production of a MPI, from the choice of the … in the resulting MPI approaches, and some policy issues attendant to the measurement of multidimensional poverty …
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Altitude and distance relationships with the multidimensional poverty index : the case of Peru
Delgado, Augusto - In: Economía : revista del Departamento de Economía, … 46 (2023) 91, pp. 1-21
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Collective values, behavioural norms, and rules: Building institutions for economic growth and poverty reduction
Chu, Ke-young - 2001
Economic growth and poverty reduction require for a country to establish efficient rules for economic and political transactions. Poor countries suffer from inadequate, inefficient transaction rules. Formal rules (e.g., laws, policies) must be nested in hospitable behavioural norms and values....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279006
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Is poverty in the African DNA (gene)?
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2015
contemporary context, but not in the historical analysis. From a historical context, the nexus is U-shaped for migratory distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408502
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Is Poverty in the African DNA (Gene)?
Asongu, Simplice - 2017
contemporary context, but not in the historical analysis. From a historical context, the nexus is U-shaped for migratory distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971855