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Inclusion amid ethnic inequality: Insights from Brazil's social protection system
Sugiyama, Natasha Borges - 2022
Policy frames in Brazil have long run up against conflicting visions and understandings about the causes and consequences of group-based inequality. This paper argues that a class-based lens has dominated the social protection framework. In recent years, political leaders have framed social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472612
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Inclusion amid ethnic inequality : insights from Brazil's social protection system
Sugiyama, Natasha Borges - 2022
Policy frames in Brazil have long run up against conflicting visions and understandings about the causes and consequences of group-based inequality. This paper argues that a class-based lens has dominated the social protection framework. In recent years, political leaders have framed social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013279956
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Poverty in Europe and the USA: Exchanging official measurement methods
Notten, Geranda; Neubourg, Chris de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Official poverty methodologies differ from other poverty measurement methods in the sense that the official ones are more often used as a benchmark to develop new policies as well as to evaluate the performance of existing programs. Europe has the tradition and the practice to use relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790223
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The Economy-wide Impacts of the South African Child Support Grant: a Micro-Simulation-Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Tiberti, Luca; Maisonnave, Hélène; Chitiga, Margaret; … - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2013
We examine the economy-wide impact of the child support grant (CSG) on the South African economy using a bottom-up/top-down approach. This allows us to estimate the potential effects on households’ welfare and on the economy following a change in the CSG. Three simulations are presented, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010631616
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"Crisis and the Poor: Socially Responsible Macroeconomics"
Lustig, Nora - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2000)
Macroeconomic crises not only affect the current living standards of the poor, but their ability to grow out of poverty. This paper presents evidence on the impact of economic crisis on poverty and inequality in Latin America. Crises not only result in higher poverty rates but may cause...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021303
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Half in Ten: Why Taking Disability into Account is Essential to Reducing Income Poverty and Expanding Economic Inclusion
Fremstad, Shawn - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009
Disability is both a fundamental cause and consequence of income poverty. The income-poverty rate for persons with … about income poverty in the United States is largely silent about disability. This paper argues that we need to have a … broader view of what poverty is and also that disability must be taken into account in anti-poverty policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545815
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A Modern Framework for Measuring Poverty and Basic Economic Security
Fremstad, Shawn - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010
This report details how the dominant framework for understanding and measuring poverty in the United States has become a conservative one. The current U.S. approach to measuring poverty views poverty only in terms of having an extremely low level of annual income, and utilizes poverty thresholds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565798
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The regional distribution of income and wages: Causes and consequences
Immel, Lea - 2021
Lea Immel prepared this study while she was working at the Research Group Taxation and Fiscal Policy at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484754
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The regional distribution of income and wages : causes and consequences
Immel, Lea - 2021
Lea Immel prepared this study while she was working at the Research Group Taxation and Fiscal Policy at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484032
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Food insecurity research in the United States : where we have been and where we need to go
Gundersen, Craig; Ziliak, James P. - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 40 (2018) 1, pp. 119-135
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010998