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Income and beyond: multidimensional poverty in six Latin American countries
Battiston, Diego; Cruces, Guillermo; López-Calva, Luis F. - 2009
This paper presents empirical results of a wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil … and Chile experienced significant reductions of multidimensional poverty. In contrast, in urban Uruguay there was a small … reduction in multidimensional poverty, while in urban Argentina the estimates did not change significantly. El Salvador, Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895801
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Empirical Essays on Poverty, Inequality, and Social Welfare
McCaig, Brian - 2009
This thesis consists of three empirical chapters related to distributional outcomes, such as poverty and inequality, in … urban inequality.Chapter 3 examines the impacts of the 2001 U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement on provincial poverty … bivariate poverty is lower in Germany than in either the UK or the USA. On the other hand, poverty comparisons between the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009455242
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Considerations of Efficiency and Distributive Justice in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
Rippin, Nicole Isabell - 2014
Ab den 1980er Jahren entwickelte Amartya Sen eine neue Wohlfahrtstheorie: den Capability Approach (Sen, 1979; 1985; 1992; 1999; 2009). Dabei ersetzen Capabilities und Functionings, d.h. das, was Personen tatsächlich in der Lage sind zu tun und zu sein, den traditionellen Einkommensansatz. Armut ist im...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353191
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The nexus between agricultural productivity, poverty, and social services provision in Sub-Saharan Africa : an empirical analysis
Reimers, Malte - 2014
of the global poor and it will hence have to play a key role in the fight against global poverty. The first essay (co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526649
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Alternative Konzepte der Unternehmensbesteuerung vor dem Hintergrund aktueller Herausforderungen der deutschen Steuerpolitik : eine Quantifizierung der Aufkommens- und Belastungswi...
Finke, Katharina - 2013
Die inhaltliche Ausrichtung dieser Dissertation erlaubt Aussagen zu vier bedeutenden und aktuellen Problemfeldern der deutschen Steuerpolitik: fehlende Finanzierungsneutralität, internationale Koordinierung, steuerliche Standortattraktivität und Umfang der Gewinnverlagerung ins Ausland....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767013
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Fossil resources and climate change - the green paradox and resource market power revisited in general equilibrium
Pfeiffer, Johannes - 2017
This dissertation was written by Johannes Pfeiffer while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in November 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the department of economics of the University Regensburg in December 2016. The thesis studies unintended...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741830
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Effectiveness of climate policies : empirical methods and evidence
Dieler, Julian - 2016
This volume was prepared by Julian Dieler while he was working with the Center for Energy, Climate and exhaustible Resources at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. At the latest since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 climate policies are permanently on the international policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742402
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Climate policy and the intertemporal supply of fossil resources
Beermann, Christian - 2015
This thesis was written by Christian Beermann while he was a research assistant at the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the University of Munich. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2015. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742832
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A demand system for dynamic microsimulation models
Brehe, Mathias - 2006
The application of a microsimulation model as an instrument for economic research enjoys great popularity. The use of … microsimulation is an almost ideal method for the estimation of the impact of tax and allocative transfer reforms. With the … integration of a demand system the field of application of a microsimulation model can be enlarged as well as its potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449063