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Pro-poor growth using non-income indicators : an empirical illustration for Colombia
Cardozo, Adriana R.; Grosse, Melanie - 2009
In this paper, we analyze how the distribution of selected non-income welfare indicators changed between 1997 and 2003 in Colombia. We use multidimensional propoor growth measurement techniques and create indices for assets, health, education, and subjective welfare using two alternative...
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Measurement of horizontal inequity in health care utilisation using European panel data
Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Jones, Andrew M.; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2007
Measurement of inequity in health care delivery has focused on the extent to which health care utilisation is or is not distributed according to need, irrespective of income. Studies using cross-sectional data have proposed various ways of measuring and standardizing for need, but inevitably...
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Measuring living standards with income and consumption : evidence from the UK
Brewer, Mike; O'Dea, Cormac - 2012
one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …
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Multidimensional poverty and inequality
Aaberge, Rolf; Brandolini, Andrea - 2015
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Poverty persistence and poverty dynamics : snapshots of who is poor in one period provide an incomplete picture of poverty
Biewen, Martin - 2014
A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most … into and out of poverty should be the main focus of anti-poverty policies. Understanding the characteristics of the … persistently poor, and the circumstances and mechanisms associated with entry into and exit from poverty, can help to inform …
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Defining and measuring poverty and Inequality post-2015
Lang, Valentin F.; Lingnau, Hildegard - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 27 (2015) 3, pp. 399-414
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From deprivation to distribution : is global poverty becoming a matter of national inequality?
Sumner, Andrew - 2012
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What do national poverty lines tell us about global poverty?
Gentilini, Ugo; Sumner, Andrew - 2012
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Matching household surveys with DHS data to create nationally representative time series of poverty : an application to Bolivia
Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009 - This version: December 19, 2009
Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to …
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The sensitivity of distributional measures to the income reference period
Schröder, Carsten - In: Journal of income distribution : an international quarterly 21 (2012) 2, pp. 77-115
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