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means of poverty reduction and argues that the poverty impact of distributional change is so minor that it can be neglected … maintained their most equitable income distribution of the past few decades, the global poverty headcount could have been reduced … poverty reduction strategy …
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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 … in global miserliness over the last 30 years. -- Miser index ; poverty ; affluence ; inequality ; development …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275899
This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a …-level investment is also negatively related to several measures of poverty. Overall, our results indicate that firm-level capital … reducing inequality and poverty. Our results may also be beneficial to policy makers as they consider a variety of regulatory …
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The evaluation of development processes and of public policies often involves comparisons of social states that differ in income distributions, population sizes and life longevity. This may require social evaluation principles to be sensitive to the quality, the quantity and the duration of...
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national currencies using either the 2005 or 2011 level; in the medium term, we argue for global poverty measurement based on … internationally coordinated national poverty measurement. … poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …
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We examine the effect of economic globalisation on income redistribution and hypothesise that it depends on ethnic … jure financial globalisation on redistribution. In particular, the total effect of de jure financial globalisation on … redistribution is negative in highly fractionalised countries. Governments in these countries are apparently not only reluctant to …
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This paper presents a new approach to measuring energy or fuel poverty for developed countries. As such, it develops a … multidimensional energy poverty index (MEPI), which can evaluate energy poverty from a multidimensional angle. The MEPI is composed of … three attributes (dimensions) of energy poverty in developed countries: energy costs, income, and energy efficiency of …
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The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …
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This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a …-level investment is also negatively related to several measures of poverty. Overall, our results indicate that firm-level capital … reducing inequality and poverty. Our results may also be beneficial to policy makers as they consider a variety of regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014238707