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tax schemes that alleviate poverty. To avoid conflict with individual well-being, we require redistribution to take place … between agents on both sides of the poverty line provided they have the same labor time. This requirement is combined with … yields the following evaluation criterion: tax schemes should minimize the labor time required to reach the poverty line. We …
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To what extent do income taxation systems decrease poverty? We raise this question under the assumption that well …
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To what extent do income taxation systems decrease poverty? We raise this question under the assumption that well …
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This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … relationship between Lorenz, welfare, and inequality orderings. The second section, on poverty, deals with the identification and … aggregation exercises; properties of poverty indices; some specific poverty measures; the problem of plurality and unambiguous …
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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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This study provides a step-by-step account of how fuzzy measures of non-monetary deprivation and also monetary poverty … complete mapping of poverty in Mozambique. Monetary and non-monetary deprivation seem to have very different distribution …
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The aim of the article is to assess the impact of taxes on poverty and inequality in Ukraine and provide … recommendations on how taxation should be used to address problems of inequality and poverty. The research methodology is based on a … taxation and social spending on inequality and poverty in individual countries. The dataset consists of data from the World …
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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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This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...
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