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Empirical income distributions: the case of Sri Lanka
Naranpanawa, Athula; Selvanathan, Saroja - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) January, pp. 26-50
Purpose – There has been growing interest in recent years in modelling various poverty-related issues. However, there have not been many attempts at empirical estimation of best-fit income distribution functions with an objective of subsequent use in poverty focused models. The purpose of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742454
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Empirical income distributions: the case of Sri Lanka
Naranpanawa, Athula; Selvanathan, Saroja - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) January, pp. 26-50
Purpose – There has been growing interest in recent years in modelling various poverty-related issues. However, there have not been many attempts at empirical estimation of best-fit income distribution functions with an objective of subsequent use in poverty focused models. The purpose of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685880
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Empirical income distributions: the case of Sri Lanka
Naranpanawa, Athula; Selvanathan, Saroja; Bandara, … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2012) 1, pp. 26-50
Purpose – There has been growing interest in recent years in modelling various poverty‐related issues. However, there have not been many attempts at empirical estimation of best‐fit income distribution functions with an objective of subsequent use in poverty focused models. The purpose of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805771
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Poverty in Haiti : essays on underdevelopment and post disaster prospects
Lundahl, Mats - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008748793
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Oasis of resilience? : an empirical investigation of rain water harvesting systems in a high poverty, peripheral community
Aldrich, Daniel P.; Page-Tan, Courtney - In: Economics of disasters and climate change 4 (2020) 1, pp. 129-144
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224010
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Benefit in the wake of disaster : long-run effects of earthquakes on welfare in rural Indonesia
Gignoux, Jeremie - In: Journal of development economics 118 (2016), pp. 26-44
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637166
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Poverty in Haiti : Essays on Underdevelopment and Post Disaster Prospects
Lundahl, Mats - 2011
Following the 2010 earthquake catastrophe, this book examines the economic and political challenges facing Haiti. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053912
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Poverty in Haiti : essays on under development and post disaster prospects
Lundahl, Mats - 2011
Following the 2010 earthquake catastrophe, this book examines the economic and political challenges facing Haiti. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014275238
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Effect of Microfinance on Vulnerability, Poverty and Risk in Low Income Households
Bali Swain, Ranjula; Floro, Maria - 2007
Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more … vulnerability. A theoretical framework is developed to examine the mechanisms through which the pecuniary and non-pecuniary effects …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321600
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Vulnerability to Downside Risk and Poverty in Vietnam
Povel, Felix - 2010
In this paper we propose a new measure of vulnerability called vulnerability to downside risk. The relevant benchmark …) axiomatic measure of vulnerability to poverty. We apply a measure of both vulnerability to downside risk and to poverty to data … substantially between different wealth groups. Consequently, the relation between initial wealth and vulnerability to downside risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329910