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The Alkire and Foster (2011) methodology, as the mainstream approach to the measurement of multi-dimensional poverty in …-dimensional poverty in the literature overlook intra-household inequalities, an issue that is crucial to a better understanding of gender … inequalities, because they equate the poverty status of the household with the poverty status of all individuals in the household …
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The Alkire and Foster (2011) methodology, as the mainstream approach to the measurement of multi-dimensional poverty in …-dimensional poverty in the literature overlook intra-household inequalities, an issue that is crucial to a better understanding of gender … inequalities, because they equate the poverty status of the household with the poverty status of all individuals in the household …
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Efficiency of education and health provision in a sample of OECD countries is assessed by means of two alternative non-parametric methodologies: FDH and DEA. The efficiency frontier is estimated using both measures of expenditure and quantity inputs, as a country may well be efficient from a...
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paper builds on those studies by considering satellite measures for improving poverty measures. The paper uses local …
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It is important for countries to measure and track poverty as frequently and accurately as possible, particularly in … poverty trends over the short and long term, assessing the determinants of poverty, targeting policy interventions geared to … inclusive poverty data is critical for countries in Central America, a sub-region that has proven vulnerable to various types of …
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Sen’s influential work on human development has led economists to explore new areas that have become increasingly important for human well-being. In particular, Sen emphasizes the importance of the "freedom to choose". Freedom, however, is not always an exact (crisp) outcome, and membership in...
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Panel data play an important role in producing insights into households’ welfare dynamics and economic transformation processes. Yet, such data are not readily available for a number of countries, particularly developing countries, because they require considerable financial and technical...
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Homelessness is arguably the most extreme hardship associated with poverty in the United States, yet people … experiencing homelessness are excluded from official poverty statistics and much of the extreme poverty literature. This paper …
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