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According to Sen (1976), any reasonable poverty index ought to be sensitive to inequality. In a multidimensional … framework, inequality between poverty dimensions is traditionally treated as association sensitivity. Such an approach, however … introduces a new property for dealing with inequality that accounts for both efficiency as well as distributive justice. Based on …
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The official measure to analyse poverty in Germany is the at-risk-of-poverty rate, defined as 60 per cent of the median net equivalence income. The severe methodological weaknesses of this rate seem to be the main source for the uncertainty that the issue of poverty in Germany generates in the...
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We explore a novel first order dominance (FOD) approach to poverty mapping and compare its properties to small area estimation. The FOD approach uses census data directly; is straightforward to implement; is multidimensional allowing for a broad conception of welfare; and accounts rigorously for...
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In this paper we make welfare comparisons among districts of Zambia using multidimensional well-being indicators observed at the household level using the first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. in 2012. This approach allows welfare comparisons without making any assumptions...
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index with alternative poverty indices that are sensitive to inequality. Poverty is estimated using Demographic and Health … breadth and inequality components of multidimensional poverty. …
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1998-2001 period have offset the increase in inequality that would have occurred otherwise. They also contribute to a …
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Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and …
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of poverty rates and inequality levels. We also estimate a heterogeneous response to the mining-abundant condition …, finding stronger responses in lower-poverty, higher-inequality districts. Finally, we find a trend suggesting incremental … activities, on the reduction of poverty and inequality. …
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What has happened to inequality between and within countries since 1990? In this paper we explore who have been the … winners and losers from global growth since 1990. We find that falls in total global inequality in the last 30 years are …
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