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DAD: a Software for Poverty and Distributive Analysis

Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2006

DAD is designed to facilitate the analysis and the comparisons of social welfare, inequality, poverty and equity across … reforms to these programs) on poverty and equity. …

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Theory of the avatar

Castronova, Edward - 2003

increase aggregate human well-being, while decreasing its cross-sectional variance. These efficiency and equity effects are …

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Chapter 35 Equity in health

Williams, Alan; Cookson, Richard - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1863-1910). 2000

Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health … person may expect to enjoy over his or her lifetime. Although we mostly follow the economists' custom of regarding equity as …

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Chapter 34 Equity in health care finance and delivery

Wagstaff, Adam; van Doorslaer, Eddy - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1803-1862). 2000

The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most … discussion of the concept and definition of equity. The empirical sections cover the literature on equity in health care … financing (progressivity and horizontal equity of health care financing arrangements), equity in health care delivery …

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Clarifying Poverty Decomposition

Müller, Adrian - 2008

I discuss how poverty decomposition methods relate to integral approximation, which ultimately is the foundation of every decomposition of the temporal change of a quantity into key drivers. This offers a common framework for the different decomposition methods used in the literature, clarifies...

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Poverty accounting by factor components: With an empirical illustration using chinese data

Wan, Guanghua - 2006

The purpose of this paper is to develop two poverty decomposition frameworks and to illustrate their applicability. A given level of poverty is broadly decomposed into an overall inequality component and an overall endowment component in terms of income or consumption determinants or input...

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Clarifying Poverty Decomposition

Muller, Adrian - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

I discuss how poverty decomposition methods relate to integral approximation, which is the foundation of decomposition of the temporal change of a quantity into key drivers. This offers a common framework for the different decomposition methods used in the literature, clarifies their often...

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Clarifying Poverty Decomposition

Müller, Adrian - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2008

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Spatial decomposition of inequality

Shorrocks, Anthony; Wan, Guanghua - 2004

This paper reviews the theory and application of decomposition techniques in the context of spatial inequality. It establishes some new theoretical results with potentially wide applicability, and examines empirical evidence drawn from a large number of countries.

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Measuring segregation when hierarchy matters

Hutchens, Robert M. - 2012

This paper considers the problem of measuring segregation when groups form a hierarchy whereby some groups have greater economic status than others. While existing measures of segregation address the case where people are unequally distributed across groups with the same economic status, concern...

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