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McGillivray, Mark (ed.) - 2006

This book examines inequality, poverty and well-being concepts and corresponding empirical measures. Attempting to push …

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Inequality, poverty and well-being

McGillivray, Mark (ed.) - 2006

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The capability threshold : re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country

Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; Berg, Servaas van der - 2015

In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...

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Health inequality : morality and measurement

Asada, Yukiko - 2007

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Measuring what matters? : empirical essays in welfare economics

Mahler, Daniel Gerszon - 2018

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Measuring tomorrow : accounting for well-being, resilience, and sustainability in the twenty-first century

Laurent, Éloi - 2018

How moving beyond GDP will improve well-being and sustainability Never before in human history have we produced so much data, and this empirical revolution has shaped economic research and policy profoundly. But are we measuring, and thus managing, the right things--those that will help us solve...

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Measuring Tomorrow : Accounting for Well-Being, Resilience, and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century

Laurent, Éloi - 2018

How moving beyond GDP will improve well-being and sustainabilityNever before in human history have we produced so much data, and this empirical revolution has shaped economic research and policy profoundly. But are we measuring, and thus managing, the right things—those that will help us solve...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481632

Developing a principle-based framework for evaluating comprehensive poverty solutions across contexts

Forrest, Tamar M.; Wallace-Pascoe, Dawn; Goldstein, Howard - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 19 (2015) 3, pp. 330-355

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Poverty in the regions of the European Union : measurement with a composite indicator

Węziak-Białowolska, Dorota - In: Contemporary economics 9 (2015) 2, pp. 113-154

We measure area-specific human poverty in the European Union (EU) at the second level of the nomenclature of … territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2). We construct a regional human poverty index (RHPI), which comprises four dimensions … regarding the relative standing of a given country with respect to its level of poverty and shows the variability of poverty …

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The analysis and the measurement of poverty : an interval-based composite indicator approach

Drago, Carlo - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 4, pp. 1-17

The study of poverty and its quantification is a critical yet unresolved problem in social science. This work seeks to … use a new composite indicator to assess poverty as a multidimensional concept. However, subjective decisions, such as …-based composite indicator. Our method generates robust and trustworthy measurements based on a meaningful conceptual model of poverty …

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