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Efforts to tackle discrimination in access to basic services have shown mixed results in different country settings. This study examines the positive and negative outcomes attributed to anti-discrimination measures adopted in different country contexts and analyses the factors contributing to...
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measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross … system, the proposed methodology offers out-of-sample predicted poverty rates.These estimates are not statistically different …
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The European 2020 Strategy has launched a novel indicator for monitoring poverty reduction over the current decade … poverty and social exclusion among immigrants. It is argued that the analytical insight and internal consistency of the new … multidimensional poverty literature. The Alkire-Foster methodology provides a natural extension to the Europe 2020 indicator, which can …
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The increasing growth of forced displacement worldwide has brought more attention to measuring poverty among refugee … measure poverty among refugees using cross-survey imputation and administrative and survey data collected by the United … registration system, the proposed methodology offers out-of-sample predicted poverty rates that are not statistically different …
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measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross … system, the proposed methodology offers out-of-sample predicted poverty rates. These estimates are not statistically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140318
poverty measures. Nevertheless, policymakers, researchers, advocates, and legislators generally do not understand the details … of poverty measure mechanics. These detailed mechanics shape and reshape poverty measures and the too often uninformed … responses and remedies. This Article will build a bridge from personal portraits of families living in poverty to the resource …
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Although racial inequalities are much researched, studies differ on the specific measure of individuals’ racial identity that they consider. This can affect the comparability of results across studies and, more importantly, the estimation of racial inequality in society. We estimate the extent...
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This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data. It presents evidence that income is likely to be under-recorded for households with low resources. It describes the different impressions one gets about trends in the level and inequality of...
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How should relative poverty be defined and measured in a European Union where there are substantial variations in … suggests that Europe-wide comparisons are more important to the perception of poverty than the convention of national relative … poverty lines would have led us to expect. Even relative poverty is more prevalent in the new low-income (eastern) countries …
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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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