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PRO-POOR GROWTH AND PRO-POOR PROGRAMS IN COLOMBIA

Nuñez, Jairo; Espinosa, Silvia - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2005

for the years 1996 to 2004. We study the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty by following the Poverty …This paper analyzes the relationship between growth, poverty and income distribution using household data for Colombia … degree to which the poor benefit from the growth process. We also carry out a decomposition of the changes in poverty to …

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What is "Pro-Poor"?

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Wodon, Quentin - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2004

Assessing whether distributional changes are "pro-poor" has become increasingly widespread in academic and policy circles. Starting from relatively general ethical axioms, this paper proposes simple graphical methods to test whether distributional changes are indeed pro-poor. Pro-poor standards...

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Fiscal Incidence, Fiscal Mobility and the Poor: a New Approach

Lustig, Nora; Higgins, Sean - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012

Taxes and transfers can have significant impacts on poverty and inequality. All standard measures are by definition … transfers can lower inequality and poverty (including the severity of poverty) but still make a subgroup of the poor worse off … when standard poverty and inequality indicators decline and overall taxes are progressive. …

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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Generalised Lorenz Curves

Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This module illustrates how Generalised Lorenz (GL) Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options, in many of the cases where ordinary Lorenz curves fail to work After...

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Chapter 10 Taxation

Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007

This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...

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Creating National Poverty Profiles and Growth Incidence Curves with Incomplete Income or Consumption Expenditure Data: An Application to Bolivia

Spatz, Julius; Klasen, Stephan; Grosse, Melanie - 2006

(DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. … technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to generate a time series …

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Matching Household Surveys with DHS Data to Create Nationally Representative Time Series of Poverty: An Application to Bolivia

Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to …

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The potential of universal basic income schemes to mitigate shocks: Comparing the performance of universal basic income in Uganda and Zambia during COVID-19

Nichelatti, Enrico; Jouste, Maria; Rattenhuber, Pia - 2024

the effects of four UBI schemes on poverty and inequality measures during normal times and times of crisis in Uganda and … benefit leads to higher poverty and inequality compared to existing benefits. By contrast, in Uganda, a country with only one … notable social protection programme, all UBI scenarios reduce poverty and inequality. Differences between welfare estimates …

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The new "minimum vital income" in Spain: Distributional and poverty effects in the presence and absence of regional minimum income schemes

Badenes Plá, Nuria; Gambau-Suelves, Borja - 2020

Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all … effects on inequality and poverty that the elimination of current RMI and the introduction of the new IMV would generate …The "Minimum Vital Income" (IMV) constitutes a novelty in the panorama for fighting poverty by guaranteeing minimum …

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Approximations to the truth: Comparing survey and microsimulation approaches to measuring income for social indicators

Figari, Francesco; Iacovou, Maria; Skew, Alexandra; … - 2010

complementary approaches: a standard approach based on reported incomes in survey data, and a microsimulation approach, where taxes … microsimulation procedures, we may expect the two approaches to generate slightly different results. In fact, we find reasonably …

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