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Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to …
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Assessing whether distributional changes are pro-poor has become increasingly widespread in academic and policy circles. Starting from relatively general ethical axioms, this paper proposes simple graphical methods to test whether distributional changes are indeed pro-poor. Pro-poor standards...
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This paper reviews the literature on distributional effects of energy and carbon taxation with focus on microsimulation … macroeconomic models and long-term modelling perspectives in microsimulation. Both aspects can be of great importance with respect … to the design of green growth policies. Thoughtful incorporation of social considerations, including aspects of poverty …
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This paper reviews the literature on distributional effects of energy and carbon taxation with focus on microsimulation … macroeconomic models and long-term modelling perspectives in microsimulation. Both aspects can be of great importance with respect … to the design of green growth policies. Thoughtful incorporation of social considerations, including aspects of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010482116
We assess the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (poverty and inequality) in 93 developing … findings are established. First, the increased use of mobile phones to pay bills is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in … at HDI thresholds of 0.725, 0.727 and 0.778 and; (ii) inequality in UMIC and LA with HDI thresholds of respectively 0 …
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between mobile and inclusive development (quality of growth, poverty and inequality) in 93 developing countries for the year …) and negatively correlated with inequality in Latin American countries (LA). Second, growing use of mobile phones to send …/receive money is negatively associated with poverty in Asia and Pacific (AP) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Originality …
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-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty … consumption poverty and non-monetary poverty outcomes over this period, showing improvements in almost all indicators over this … period. At the same time, inequality has risen over the past 20 years and spatial inequality, in both monetary and non …
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poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …-monetary poverty have gradually improved over the past 20 years but significant differences across the country remain. …
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The objective of this study was to examine the role of social security in fighting poverty in Metlaoui, Tunisia, using …
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inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth that can be used to compute these measures from GB2 parameter estimates. An application …
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