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The isograph methodology is developed here with associated distributions, indicators of inequality, additional results … distributions (FC, Dagum, SinghMaddala) are presented along with new proposals, including gb2 subfamilies with p=1/q and p=q, the … completes LaSi with a polarization term of intensity pi and location kappa. This latest proposal fits better the cases of …
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The isograph methodology is developed here with associated distributions, indicators of inequality, additional results … distributions (FC, Dagum, SinghMaddala) are presented along with new proposals, including gb2 subfamilies with p=1/q and p=q, the … completes LaSi with a polarization term of intensity pi and location kappa. This latest proposal fits better the cases of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455258
Income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a … method of moments procedure applied to grouped data. Estimated parameters of these distributions are used to calculate … measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992 - 2010. Changes in these measures are …
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shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German … period of income. Estimates from annual, quarterly and monthly distributions are provided for one and a half decades …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between polarization and inequality, welfare and poverty measures. First, the … Wolfson polarization measure is generalized in terms of the between-groups and within-groups Gini components for income groups … separated by any z income value. Second, it is shown that polarization is the difference between the welfare levels of rich and …
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. The relationship between polarization, inequality and poverty is analyzed via the index. First, polarization measure for …This paper revisits one of the bipolarization indices of the large class of Duclos-Estebane-Ray polarization measures … headcount ratio, the income gap ratio and the overabundance gap ratio. In particular, it is shown that polarization is high when …
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A growing literature examines the effects of poverty, inequality and polarization on civil war but analyses typically …-coded data on 15 000 conflict deaths spread over a decade with small-area estimates of poverty and inequality for almost 4000 … war. Local relative wealth inequality is postively associated with the escalation of conflict, suggesting that relative …
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prosperity using 'inequality lines'. Analogous to poverty lines but focused on inequality, inequality lines are benchmark incomes …. Income increases below the inequality line decrease inequality; income increases above the line increase inequality. In … contrast to the B40 approach and all conventional poverty lines, inequality lines arise naturally: their location in the income …
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and 2020 and other data sources, we find within-province inequality to be much larger than between-province inequality …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … inequality levels. We also find greater inequality to have negative impact on economic growth and poverty reduction. Our results …
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