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This paper outlines a comparison empirically between overall inequality in child malnutrition (Malnutrition-Gini) and wealth based inequality in child malnutrition (Wealth-Based-Concentration Index) for Indian children. The framework by A. Wagstaff and E.van Doorslaer, 2003 is used for this...
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While inequality in resource endowments has been shown to affect cooperation levels in groups, much of this evidence comes from studies of within-group inequality. In an online public goods experiment, we instead examine the effects of payoff-irrelevant inequality in resources between groups on...
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This study seeks to add to the research on inequality in least developed countries, namely in Mozambique, by measuring and mapping indicators of horizontal wealth inequality along geographic regions and ethnolinguistic identities. Using census data for 1997, 2007, and 2017, we identify possible...
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the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of … just 12 per cent, this would have been sufficient to end $2 poverty today. Persistence of global poverty, it seems, is not …
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avenues for further research. -- well-being ; multidimensional poverty ; distance function ; Catalonia …
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This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...
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We investigate the factors driving Bolivia's success in reducing inequality and poverty during the last 15 years. Our … the poverty and inequality reduction of the last 15 years …
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From a composite poverty indicator, the analysis of the level and evolution of multidimensional poverty in Togo between … periods, non-monetary poverty appears very strongly accentuated near the rural households and appears being of enormous … dimension in the Savannas region. Considering the living standard composite indicator's distribution, it appears that poverty is …
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Based on a composite poverty indicator, the analysis of the level and evolution of multidimensional poverty in Togo … between 1988 and 1998 reveals a downward trend using both relative and absolute poverty lines. Over the two periods studied …, non-monetary poverty strongly increased in the rural households and appears to be present on a large scale in the Savanna …
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those years. In this way, inequality and poverty can be estimated by using the same statistical criteria that are used today … poverty show a decreasing trend until the 1990s and a subsequent increase; the upward trend of these indicators in recent … in the poverty indices …
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