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The welfare effects of financial inclusion in Ghana : an exploration based on a multidimensional measure of financial inclusion
Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Danquah, Michael - 2021
financial inclusion would be important in the quest to reduce the incidence of poverty and vulnerability as well as inequality. …
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Poverty and social exclusion in India
2011
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Social deprivation and exclusion of immigrants in Germany
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Sinning, Mathias - 2007
This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to experience a significant degree of social deprivation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631294
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Calibrating a cross-European poverty line
Berthoud, Richard - 2012
How should relative poverty be defined and measured in a European Union where there are substantial variations in … suggests that Europe-wide comparisons are more important to the perception of poverty than the convention of national relative … poverty lines would have led us to expect. Even relative poverty is more prevalent in the new low-income (eastern) countries …
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The intergenerational dynamics of social inequality : empirical evidence from Europe and the United States
Eberharter, Veronika V. - 2013
determinants of intergenerational income mobility and the relative risk of poverty differ with respect to the existing welfare … the relative risk of poverty. …
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Socio-economic exclusion as a hindrance of economic development : a comparative study for European countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2013
symptoms of human poverty. This implies obstacles in gaining full and free access to education, professional health care … development of countries. The aim of the analysis is to identify the magnitude of socio-economic deprivation (human poverty) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011802045
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The contexts of social inclusion
Silver, Hilary - 2015
In light of the emphasis on “inclusion” in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this paper contends that social exclusion and inclusion are context-dependent concepts in at least three senses. First, the ideal of an inclusive society varies by country and by region. Second, different...
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The relationship between poverty and inequality : concepts and measurement
Yang, Lin - 2017
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Multidimensional disadvantage and wellbeing
Riggs, Lynn - 2023
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Inequality generating processes and measurement of the Matthew effect
Bask, Miia; Bask, Mikael - 2010
The first aim of this paper is to clarify the differences and rela-tionships between cumulative advantage/disadvantage and the Matthew ef-fect. Its second aim, which is also its main contribution, is not only to present a new measure of the Matthew effect, but also to show how to esti-mate this...
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