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A comparison of inequality and living standards in Canada and the United States using an extended income measure

Wolff, Edward N.; Zacharias, Ajit; Masterson, Thomas; … - In: Eastern economic journal 42 (2016) 2, pp. 171-192

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Repercussions the COVID-19 pandemic on the SDGs achievement : is it a new era for the development?

Belaîd, Fateh; Tiba, Sofien - In: The European journal of development research 35 (2023) 1, pp. 138-147

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Impacts of income poverty and high housing costs on fuel poverty in Egypt : an empirical modeling approach

Belaîd, Fateh; Flambard, Véronique - In: Energy policy 175 (2023), pp. 1-14

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The effects of multidimensional well-being growth on poverty and inequality in Brazil over the periods of 2004-2008 and 2016-2019

Neves, Otavio Junio Faria; Silva, Ana Márcia Rodrigues da - In: Brazilian journal of political economy 43 (2023) 2, pp. 358-379

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Tax structure for consumption and income inequality : an empirical assessment

Alves, José; Afonso, António - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 10 (2019) 3/4, pp. 337-364

In this study, we assess the relationship between several tax items and consumption and income inequality levels. For OECD countries between 1980 and 2015, we use panel data techniques and find tax threshold values regarding inequality levels and consumption. In particular, we obtain threshold...

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Tax policy reform and universal basic income effectiveness in a currency union : implications for long-term growth, inequality, and welfare

Kame Babilla, Thierry U. - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 10 (2023), pp. 1-15

This paper aims to assess tax policy reforms that can sustain universal basic income programs and foster long-term growth and welfare in a currency union that faces fiscal rule constraints and inequality. To address this ongoing government and economics' debate, we developed a Dynamic Stochastic...

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Inequality and poverty when effort matters

Ravallion, Martin - In: Econometrics : open access journal 5 (2017) 4, pp. 1-19

poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor … the measurement assumptions. With only a modest allowance for leisure as a basic need, the effort-adjusted poverty rate in …

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Distribution of poverty and inequality indices for various groups in Greece using the bootstrap technique

Aggelopoulou, Dimitra; Zografakis, Stavros; Sypsas, … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 2, pp. 81-97

The present work estimates poverty and inequality indices in various groups that are known to have high contributions … to poverty and inequality, such as farmers, pensioners and families with 3 or more children. Using the bootstrap … technique, we estimate confidence intervals for these indices and examine if the decrease of poverty and inequality during the …

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On various ways of measuring pro-poor growth

Deutsch, Joseph; Silber, Jacques - 2011

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally we also propose a …

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The impact of income adjustments in the CASEN survey on the measurement of inequality in Chile

Bravo, David; Valderrama Torres, José A. - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 43-65

paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a … Chile. Chile looks more unequal in international relative terms due to this adjustment. -- inequality ; poverty ; income …

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