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Relative deprivation and individual well-being : low status and a feeling of relative deprivation are detrimental to health and happiness
Chen, Xi - 2015
poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430756
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Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty : a brief assessment of the literature
Ceriani, Lidia; Hlásny, Vladimír; Verme, Paolo - 2021
poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604690
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List of well-being indicators
Kettner, Claudia; Köppl, Angela; Stagl, Sigrid - 2012
This milestone presents a pool of available indicators and indicator systems which go beyond the narrow concepts of national economic accounts as well as a structuring of the indicators and indices according to central areas of well-being. The milestone builds the basis for Task 202.2, where a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010431773
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Multidimensional poverty in Nigeria : first order dominance approach
Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Olaniyan, Olanrewaju; … - 2014
This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424257
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Getting warmer: fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021
fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get "under the skin". …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603850
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Introduction
Asongu, Simplice - 2018
, conceptual and empirical contributions which address relevant areas that enhance extant knowledge on linkages between poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998545
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Getting warmer : fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021
fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get "under the skin". …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597703
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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andrew - 2013
The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752790
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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables
Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2021
addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650402
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Lives and livelihoods: estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020
This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257792