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Design of off-grid lighting business models to serve the poor : field experiments and structural analysis
Uppari, Bhavani Shanker; Netessine, Serguei; Popescu, Ioana - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 70 (2024) 5, pp. 3038-3058
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551049
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A Note on Economic Growth, Inequality, and Poverty in the Philippines
Tabuga, Aubrey D.; Reyes, Celia M. - 2011
This paper examines the relationship among poverty, economic growth, and inequality by decomposing poverty changes at subnational levels. The results were examined against the performances of the different economic sectors in the regions to understand the relationships while accounting for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421219
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Changes in Income Distributions and the Role of Tax-Benefit Policy During the Great Recession: An International Perspective
Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim; Doorley, Karina; Keane, … - 2013
This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely France, Germany, the UK and Ireland, and the contribution of tax and benefit policy changes. The period examined, 2008 to 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329161
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Changes in income distribution and the role of tax-benefit policy during the great recession: An international perspective
Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim; Doorley, Karina; Keane, … - 2013
This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely France, Germany, the UK and Ireland, and the contribution of tax and benefit policy changes. The period examined, 2008 to 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331180
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Born to win? The role of circumstances and luck in early childhood health inequalities
Madden, David - 2013
This paper measures the degree of inequality of opportunity in birthweight and birthlength for a sample of Irish infants. The sample is partitioned into eight types by mothers' education and mothers' smoking status. Stochastic dominance tests reveal the presence of inequality of opportunity but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343178
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A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
This paper is a review of recent developments of parametric and non-parametric approaches to decompose inequality by subgroups, income sources, causal factors and other unit characteristics. Different methods of decomposing changes in poverty into growth, redistribution, poverty standard and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261971
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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262015
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Analysing the effects of tax benefit reforms on income distribution: a decomposition approach
Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim - 2007
composition, employment level, etc.). Then, the decomposition helps to extract an absolute measure of the impact of tax … countries. Finally, the full decomposition allows quantifying the relative role of policy changes compared to all other factors …. We provide an illustration for France and Ireland and check the sensitivity of the results to the decomposition order. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268220
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Spatial inequalities explained: evidence from Burkina Faso
Gräb, Johannes; Grimm, Michael - 2008
Empirical evidence suggests that regional disparities in incomes are often very high, that these disparities do not necessarily disappear as economies grow and that these disparities are itself an important driver of growth. We use a novel approach based on multilevel modeling to decompose the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271076
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Analysing the effects of tax-benefit reforms on income distribution: A decomposition approach
Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim - 2007
composition, employment level, etc.). Then, the decomposition helps to extract an absolute measure of the impact of tax … countries. Finally, the full decomposition allows quantifying the relative role of policy changes compared to all other factors …. We provide an illustration on France and Ireland and check the sensitivity of the results to the decomposition order. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272356