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It's About Time : Examining Inequality in the Time Cost of Waiting
Holt, Stephen; Vinopal, Katie - 2021
Time spent waiting for services represents unproductive time imposed on individuals trying to fulfill basic needs …. While qualitative and ethnographic work has found that income disparities also translate into disparities in time kept … waiting for services, little evidence exists to confirm the scale and extent of socioeconomic differences in waiting time. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225770
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Boats and tides and "trickle down" theories : what economists presume about wellbeing when they employ stochastic process theory in modeling behavior
Anderson, Gordon - 2012
GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. -- Stochastic processes ; poverty ; inequality ; wellbeing measurement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009547375
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Boats and tides and "trickle down" theories : what economists presume about wellbeing when they employ stochastic process theory in modeling behavior
Anderson, Gordon - 2012
GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. -- stochastic processes ; poverty ; inequality ; wellbeing measurement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665370
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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 absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being...
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 absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009515911
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Boats and Tides and 'Trickle Down' Theories : What Economists Presume About Wellbeing When They Employ Stochastic Process Theory in Modeling Behavior
Anderson, Gordon - 2012
GDP per capita in the continent of Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104806
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Assessing Absolute and Relative Pro-Poor Growth, with an Application to Selected African Countries
Bibi, Sami - 2013
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 absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091945
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Assessing Absolute and Relative Pro-Poor Growth, with an Application to Selected African Countries
Bibi, Sami - 2013
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 absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210337
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Why Not Africa? - Growth and Welfare Effects of Secure Property Rights
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2005
This paper presents the long-run equilibrium and development dynamics in the neoclassical growth model and a simple model of endogenous growth when property rights are absent. The results are compared to the outcome in a corresponding model with secure property rights. The main findings are that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064272
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Estimating the economic impacts of the regional comprehensive economic partnership
Estrades, Carmen; Maliszewska, Maryla; Osorio-Rodarte, … - In: Asia and the global economy : AGE 3 (2023) 2, pp. 1-19
This paper links the ENVISAGE computable general equilibrium model with a microsimulation to assess the economic effects of implementing the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). Reductions of tariffs and non-tariff measures, implementation of a rule of origin, together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447569