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push into poverty. In Europe, the UK has spearheaded the definition and measurement of such phenomena. The most common way …Energy poverty, long considered a problem limited to developing countries only, is now widely acknowledged as a … challenge for advanced OECD countries as well. How energy poverty is perceived depends on the conceptualization and assessment …
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Multidimensional poverty measures give rise to a host of statistical hypotheses which are of interest to applied … minimum P-value methodology of Bennett (2010). When applied to study the relative state of poverty among Hindus and Muslims in …
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push into poverty. In Europe, the UK has spearheaded the definition and measurement of such phenomena. The most common way …Energy poverty, long considered a problem limited to developing countries only, is now widely acknowledged as a … challenge for advanced OECD countries as well. How energy poverty is perceived depends on the conceptualization and assessment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051904
The design of a poverty measure involves the selection of a set of parameters and poverty figures. In most cases the … measures are estimated from sample surveys. This raises the question of how conclusive particular poverty comparisons are … shows how to apply dominance and rank robustness tests to assess comparisons as poverty cutoffs and other parameters changes …
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-91. The Paper has five sections. First we review unidimensional poverty measurement with particular attention to the well … in axiomatic approaches to multidimensional poverty measurement, which enable the analyst to understand the ethical …-known Foster-Greer-Thorbecke measures of income poverty as many methods presented in OPHI Working Paper 84 (Chapter 3 – Overview 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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Efforts to tackle discrimination in access to basic services have shown mixed results in different country settings. This study examines the positive and negative outcomes attributed to anti-discrimination measures adopted in different country contexts and analyses the factors contributing to...
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This paper estimates ordered logit and probit regression models for bank ratings which also include a country index to capture country-specific variation. The empirical findings provide support to the hypothesis that the individual international bank ratings assigned by Fitch Ratings are...
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This paper estimates ordered logit and probit regression models for bank ratings which also include a country index to capture country-specific variation. The empirical findings provide support to the hypothesis that the individual international bank ratings assigned by Fitch Ratings are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003821872
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