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A robust normative evaluation of India's performance in allocating risks of death

Gravel, Nicolas; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Tarroux, Benoît - In: Indian Growth and Development Review 1 (2008) 1, pp. 95-111

' risks of death in India on the basis of new ethically robust criteria in 1995 and 2002. Probabilities of death are assigned … preference for considering that the distribution of risks of death in India was better in 2002 than in 1995. This is at least so … of death in India. …

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Comparing population distributions from bin-aggregated sample data: An application to historical height data from France

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Leblanc, Josée; Sahn, David - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009

This paper develops a methodology to estimate the entire population distributions from bin-aggregated sample data. We do this through the estimation of the parameters of mixtures of distributions that allow for maximal parametric flexibility. The statistical approach we develop enables...

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Comparing population distributions from bin-aggregated sample data: An application to historical height data from France

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Leblanc, Josée; Sahn, David - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2009

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Fairly Sharing the Social Impact of the Crisis in Greece

Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; Matsaganis, Manos; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Poverty and income inequality have worsened since the onset of the crisis. While the design of fiscal measures has …

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Welfare implications of fiscal reform: The case of food subsidies in India

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2002

This paper investigates the effect of a food subsidy programme in India on child malnutrition by addressing the … respect to the unusually high incidence of malnutrition in India, and they are topical in the context of current and …

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Lives and livelihoods: estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … with GDP per capita: poverty accounts for a much greater share of the welfare costs in poorer countries. Finally, the … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its …

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