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Drug-related crime and poverty in South Africa
Cheteni, Priviledge; Mah, Gisele; Yohane, Yohane Khamfula - In: Cogent economics & finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-16
This paper argues that the link between poverty and drug-related crime might be spurious. We take an empirical approach to investigate the causality and plausibility of this link. Firstly, we regress crime against envisaged explanatory variables in order to estimate the contribution of poverty...
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Legal empowerment and group-based inequality
Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2018
Legal empowerment has become widely accepted in development policy circles as an approach to addressing poverty and exclusion. At the same time, it has received relatively little attention from political scientists and sociologists working on overlapping and closely related topics. Research on...
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The Invisible Poor
Agarwal, Siddharth - 2016
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Poverty, Politics and Local Diffusion - Resource Allocation in Bolivia’s Decentralized Social Fund
Faust, Jörg - 2012
Social investment funds are prominent instruments in developing countries that aim at providing financial resources for social infrastructure projects to poor municipalities. In contrast to traditional, more centralised distribution mechanisms of such funds, the Bolivian Fondo de Inversión...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106792
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A Path-Dependent Poverty Measure
Ceriani, Lidia - 2012
The paper provides the axiomatic characterization of a new poverty measure, the path-dependent poverty index. This is a two period index taking into account not only individuals current and past deprivation levels, but also the relative position with respect to their previous income status....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109735
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A Path-Dependent Poverty Measure
Ceriani, Lidia - 2013
The paper provides the axiomatic characterization of a new poverty measure, the path-dependent poverty index. This is a two period index taking into account not only individuals current and past deprivation levels, but also the relative position with respect to their previous income status....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095525
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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement with Individual Preferences
Decancq, Koen - 2014
We propose a new class of multidimensional poverty indices. Aggregation of the different dimensions relies on individual preferences. The Pareto principle is, therefore, satisfied among the poor. The indices add up individual measures of poverty that are computed as a convex transform of the...
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A distributional analysis of the benefits of economic freedom
Compton, Ryan A.; Giedeman, Daniel C.; Hoover, Gary A. - In: European Journal of Political Economy 33 (2014) C, pp. 121-133
Using US state-level economic freedom measures, we investigate the extent that changes in economic freedom affect US … particularly timely question of who benefits from increases in economic freedom and who does not. Our results indicate that while … increases in economic freedom positively contribute to income growth, the strength of this effect differs across quintiles. …
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On the Power of Poverty Orderings
Zheng, Buhong - 1999
This paper investigates the possibility of increasing the ordering power of additively separable poverty measures beyond the condition of second degree stochastic dominance by considering third degree stochastic dominance. For a fixed poverty line, the ordering power can be significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193113
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Capital social y pobreza multidimensional : el caso de hogares pobres en Monterrey, México (Social Capital and Multidimensional Poverty: The Case of Poor Households in Monterrey, M...
Portales, Luis - 2014
Spanish Abstract: El Área Metropolitana de Monterrey, a pesar de tener indicadores de desarrollo superiores al de la mayoría de las ciudades de México, presenta hogares en condiciones de pobreza similares a los observados en las regiones más pobres del país. En este contexto, la presente...
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