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This paper offers a tool box of disaggregative measures of distributional change, including population shares, income shares, quantile mean incomes and relative mean incomes of different income groups. It highlights median-based measures along with quintiles and deciles. It also offers formulas...
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affect poverty assessments and poverty lines. We address the disadvantage that poor households may suffer due to their …, as it seems to have a substantial quantitative impact on the measurement of poverty. We also suggest that future research … poverty and may guide anti-poverty policies. …
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affect poverty assessments and poverty lines. We address the disadvantage that poor households may suffer due to their …, as it seems to have a substantial quantitative impact on the measurement of poverty. We also suggest that future research … poverty and may guide anti‐poverty policies. …
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This book offers a non-technical analysis of inequality and income distribution. It considers the way that broad ideas about the meaning of inequality are translated into specific statistical tools and with the appropriateness of the assumptions used in the literature
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Studying the characteristics of different income distributions, and compare the differences among different income distributions with respect to geographic regions, and changes over time periods is a very important area in economics. In order to compare the differences among different income...
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lack of data for nonrespondents has hindered efforts to correct for the bias in measures of poverty and inequality … inequality, but has only a small impact on poverty incidence up to commonly used poverty lines in the United States. This paper … - a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to develop better …
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and incomes by using parametric formulae of poverty and inequality measures. We propose statistical indicators for the … levels, variabilities, and correlation of prices and incomes. The roles of price and income variabilities for poverty and …
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