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Horizontal inequality and data challenges
Canelas, Carla; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2018
Inequality and social exclusion receive considerable contemporary policy attention. In the field of international … development, inequality - both vertical (between individuals and households) and horizontal (between groups) - is a core concern … in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite considerable attention to horizontal inequality in both research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011846201
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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2016 - (revised in April 2016)
the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453984
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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2016 - This Version: March 27th, 2016
the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482260
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The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP) : an introduction and preliminary findings
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2014 - This Version: October 30th, 2014
consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428804
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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015 - This Version: November 24th, 2015
distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409506
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The global consumption and income project : an introduction and preliminary findings
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015
consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462536
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Comparing global inequality of income and wealth
Davies, James B.; Shorrocks, Anthony F. - 2018
This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947029
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Inequality in energy consumption : statistical equilibrium or a question of accounting conventions?
Semieniuk, Gregor; Weber, Isabella - 2019
Mitigating climate change requires information about the inequality in energy consumption. Recent contributions … (Banerjee and Yakovenko, 2010; Lawrence et al., 2013; Yakovenko, 2010, 2013) have studied energy inequality through the lens of … maximum entropy. They claim a weighted international distribution of total primary energy demand should approach a Boltzmann …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012117663
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Life satisfaction and income inequality
Verme, Paolo - 2010
Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective well-being? Welfare theories can … predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found … such empirical heterogeneity. Using a very large sample of world citizens we test the consistency of income inequality in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336043
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Miserly developments
Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove - 2008
In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz curve, but can also be seen as a measure of polarization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275899