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household surveys from 162 countries covering 98 percent of the population estimated to be in extreme poverty in 2017. We … income not by household size but by the square-root of household size. While the regional profile of extreme poverty is …Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in …
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global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative household … by household size but by the square-root of household size. While the regional profile of extreme poverty is robust to …Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in …
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the article: To investigate the risks of poverty, including sudden poverty, the inequality of household incomes amid the …The article examines the risks of deepening poverty and income inequality that arise from global challenges of … increase of socio-economic risks, including poverty and inequality, the study of this issue is extremely relevant. The …
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is the emergence of energy poverty, a condition where households are living in inadequately heated homes. This paper … examines the institutional and demographic underpinnings of energy poverty in Macedonia and the Czech Republic, two post … 'hidden' geography of poverty encapsulates the character of domestic energy deprivation among these populations. Energy …
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We here use repeated cross-section data from the Afrobarometer, Asianbarometer Latinobarometer, and Eurobarometer to analyse the variables that are correlated with both current and future evaluations of standards of living. These are related not only to an individual's own economic resources but...
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poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …
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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 examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … effects by producing counterfactual ("no reform") scenarios using tax-benefit microsimulation and representative household …
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This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … effects by producing counterfactual ("no reform") scenarios using tax-benefit microsimulation and representative household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212995