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Este trabajo realiza un estudio comparativo del impacto de las remesas y la migración internacional sobre la pobreza y la desigualdad en cuatro países latinoamericanos con importantes procesos migratorios (Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras y Nicaragua). A partir de encuestas de hogares se estiman...
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This paper discusses the rationale as well as the challenges involved when constructing gender-related indicators of well-being. It argues that such indicators are critically important but that their construction involves a number of conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual...
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different dimensions, we explore the role of average improvements and distributional changes in children's health and nutrition …The literature on the contributions to poverty reduction of average improvements in living standards vs. distributional … changes uses only one measure of well-being - income or expenditure. Given that poverty is defined by deprivation over …
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health and education government spending on income inequality in the European Union over the 2002-2015 period. In this …
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poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …
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-discrimination measures in education. An analysis of trends in inequalities in human development is used to identify three countries that have … education has been taken up politically. …
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/urban groups. While there has been an improvement in horizontal inequality in education, this paper shows little change in other … welfare indicators, in particular poverty. We also found that horizontal inequality does matter for poverty reduction in Viet … Nam and it needs more attention when designing poverty policies in the future. …
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We examine whether there is an inequality of opportunity to achieve higher education, partially explained by … poverty is associated with reduced university aspirations from the perspective of the youth and their mother. Further, poverty … depth matters less than incidence. In terms of magnitude, poverty contributes to about 10-15 percent of the observed …
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This paper measures inequality of opportunity in adult health in Colombia using the 2010 Living Standards and Social …-reported variable for health status. The Shapley-value decomposition is then used to estimate the contribution of early … adult health …
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This paper aims to investigate the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years … examine the pattern of child health inequality. The results of the anthropometric measures show that 1.5% of children in … education and wealth are the main factors contributing to inequality of opportunity in child health outcome. On the basis of the …
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