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Assessing absolute and relative pro-poor growth, with an application to selected African countries
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Verdier-Chouchane, Audrey - 2011
This paper proposes a multidimensional procedure for jointly assessing the absolute and relative pro-poorness of growth …. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both … procedure is also robust to choosing over a class of weights to aggregate the impact of growth on the poor as well as over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269284
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Assessing absolute and relative pro-poor growth, with an application to selected African countries
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Verdier-Chouchane, Audrey - 2012
This paper proposes a multidimensional procedure for jointly assessing the absolute and relative pro-poorness of growth …. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both … procedure is also robust to choosing over a class of weights to aggregate the impact of growth on the poor as well as over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009515911
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Testing for Poverty Dominance : An Application to Canada
Chen, Wen-Hao - 2018
The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty ranking across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012706419
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Inequality indices as tests of fairness
Kanbur, Ravi; Snell, Andy - 2017
Standard income inequality indices can be interpreted as a measure of welfare loss entailed in departures from equality of outcomes, for egalitarian social welfare functions defined on the distribution of outcomes. But such a welfare interpretation has been criticized for a long time on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641764
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Sequential Stochastic Dominance and the Robustness of Poverty Orderings
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Makdissi, Paul - 2014
When comparing poverty across distributions, an analyst must select a poverty line to idendify the poor, an equivalence scale to compare individuals from households of different compositions and sizes, and a poverty index to aggregate individual deprivation into an index of total poverty. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191767
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Testing for Poverty Dominance : An Application to Canada
Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2021
The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324786
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Statistical test for the mathematical theory of democracy
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2012
gut gelingt. Solche Versuche sind Gegenstand einer Vorlesungsreihe "Mathematische Theorie der Demokratie" des Autors an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009505438
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Chapter 6. Statistical Methods for Distributional Analysis
Cowell, Frank A.; Flachaire, Emmanuel - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 359-465). 2015
This chapter discusses the formal and informal techniques that are commonly used to give quantitative answers in the field of distributional analysis. To this end, it covers subjects including inequality, poverty, and the modeling of income distributions. It also deals with parametric and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025345
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Dynamic peer groups of arbitrage characteristics
Ge, Shuyi; Li, Shaoran; Linton, Oliver - 2020
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Testing random assignment to peer groups
Jochmans, Koen - 2021 - This version: November 10, 2021
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