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Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
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poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …
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We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …. The impact of transfers on inequality and poverty reduction could be higher if spending on direct cash transfers that are …
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not always true for poverty. In Ethiopia, Tanzania, Ghana, Nicaragua, and Guatemala the extreme poverty headcount ratio is …
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We apply a standard tax-and-benefit-incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes … recipients. The impact of transfers on inequality and poverty reduction could be higher if spending on direct cash transfers that …
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Standard growth incidence curves describe how growth episodes impact on the overall income distribution. However, measuring the pro-poorness of the growth process is complex due to (i) measurement errors and (ii) effect shocks that may hit the percentiles of the income distribution in different...
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specifically on the poverty impacts of growth. Considering a cross-sectional perspective for poverty measurement, early …’s treatment of mobility encompasses both the gain of "mobility as equalizer" and the variability cost of poverty transiency …
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The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after … growth. Measurement tools that endorse this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamics in the … measuring this individual poverty incidence of growth, and show how it relates to existing models. We apply our framework to …
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We evaluate the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of alternative government education policies to encourage college completion, such as making college free and improving funding for public schooling. To do so, we construct a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with...
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This chapter explores the relationship between poverty and aging, in terms of its measurement and trends, as well as … measurement addresses both the definition of poverty and its aggregation over various age groups. The trends highlight a … significant reduction in poverty among the elderly and a gradual increase in poverty among children and working age individuals …
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