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Polarización y segregación en la distribución del ingreso en el Perú: trayectorias desiguales.
Escobal, Javier; Ponce, Carmen - Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) - 2012
A partir de estimaciones de crecimiento del gasto per cápita, pobreza y desigualdad para los años 1981, 1993 y 2007, el …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010901956
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Los activos de los pobres en el Perú
Escobal, Javier; Saavedra, Jaime; Torero, Máximo - Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) - 2000
Tanto la distribución del ingreso como los niveles de pobreza han registrado importantes modificaciones a lo largo de …, se habría producido una importante reducción en los niveles de pobreza, especialmente durante la década de los setenta. A … pesar de ello, la tasa de pobreza continúa siendo una de las más altas de América Latina. De otro lado, el análisis de la …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004995046
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Were we really all in it together? The distributional effects of the 2010 - 2015 UK Coalition government's tax-benefit policy changes: an end-of-term update
De Agostini, Paola; Hills, John; Sutherland, Holly - 2015
This paper examines the distributional impacts of the changes to benefits, tax credits, pensions and direct taxes between the UK Elections in May 2010 and in May 2015. It also looks ahead to the longer-term effects of changes and plans that were announced by the 2010-2015 Coalition government,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646641
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The distributional impact of public services in European countries
Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun; Lindgren, Petter - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of including the value of public health care, longterm care, education and childcare on estimates of income inequality and financial poverty in 23 European countries. The valuation of public services and the identification of target groups rely on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968516
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Income distribution and growth's ability to reduce poverty: Evidence from rural and urban African economies
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2010
The present study examines the degree to which income distribution affects the ability of economic growth to reduce poverty, based on 1990s data for a sample of rural and urban sectors of African economies. Using the basic needs approach, an analysis-of-covariance model is derived and estimated,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280208
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Migration's income and poverty impact has been underestimated
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2006
This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing studies have typically overlooked a feature of migration that should be taken into account in estimating its impact, namely the fact that migration changes the size of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310960
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Inequality and the impact of growth on poverty : comparative evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi (contributor) - 2008
This study explores the extent to which inequality affects the impact of income growth on the rates of poverty changes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) comparatively with non-SSA, based on a global sample of 1977-2004 unbalanced panel data. For both regions and all three measures of poverty -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793531
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Miserly developments
Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove - 2008
In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz curve, but can also be seen as a measure of polarization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808963
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Sensitivity analysis of equivalency scale in income inequality studies
Kang, Younguck - 2008
Family size equivalency scale is widely used in income inequality studies to deal with the differences in the size of each household, and it is widely accepted that the use of different scales significantly alters the estimated values of the inequality indexes and produces U-shaped pattern. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003819585
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The distributional effects of tax-benefit policies under new labour : a Shapley decomposition
Bargain, Olivier - 2009
Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it possible to disentangle and quantify the relative effect of tax-benefit policy changes, compared to all other effects including shifts in the distribution of market income....
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