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Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently … understanding of the extent and nature of inequality. From these measures, we know that inequality has been rising in Ghana despite … high and stable growth and a decline in the poverty rate. Although rising, however, inequality is low in Ghana compared …
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changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thereby help perpetuate it. To … avoid this, the present paper discusses a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality: the ratio of the income …
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The isograph methodology is developed here with associated distributions, indicators of inequality, additional results … inequality analyses with a larger conceptualization of "morphology of inequality," not reduced to a Gini (or the like) measure. …
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Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was estimated in the past literature are the motivation for our … research. First we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then examine how changes in inequality …
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Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was estimated in the past literature are the motivation for our … research. First, we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then explore how changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472036
in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … income inequality, and inequality among those with top incomes. …
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one following the COVID-19 pandemic, on income inequality and the risk of poverty in Greece. To this end, we also … inequality and relative poverty have deteriorated during the years of crises, implying that the country's response to economic … distribution, we show that income inequality and the risk of poverty increase with growth, implying that the benefits of growth …
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This paper offers a tool box of disaggregative measures of distributional change, including population shares, income shares, quantile mean incomes and relative mean incomes of different income groups. It highlights median-based measures along with quintiles and deciles. It also offers formulas...
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Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all … level, although this power has not been as effective as it was expected in reducing inequality. This work also simulates the … effects on inequality and poverty that the elimination of current RMI and the introduction of the new IMV would generate …
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We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped distributional data by allowing … counterparts, then by comparing the true and generated values of the Gini coefficient and other inequality indices. The results …
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