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Should Poverty Measurement Discount Expenditure on Pan, Tobacco and Alcohol? The Indian case

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana; Mishra, Uday Shankar - 2005

Poverty in Indian context has always generated contests and controversies regarding its concepts, measurement, levels … and implications on several aspects of human welfare. This paper cautions on the validity of poverty assessment indicated … approach of poverty assessment. …

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On the Deprivation of Basic Amenities in Rural India: An Analysis of Census 2001

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana; Joe, William - 2005

The present paper is an attempt to examine the levels of deprivation of rural people in terms of their access to basic amenities like, housing, drinking water, sanitation etc. And also it evaluates the degree of relative disadvantage of rural people when compared with their urban counterparts....

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Measuring the Human Development or Deprivation : A Review of (Different Composite Index) Methods

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - 2007

The present paper reviews the different methods in practice to measure the human development or deprivation, which, in fact, is an emerging part of the development discourse. Specifically it deals with the problems of comparability, aggregation and weighing the dimension/indicators in composite...

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Poverty, Richness, and Inequality: Evidence for Portugal Using a Housing Comfort Index

Fernandes, Cristina; Crespo, Nuno; Simoes, Nadia - 2013

point we make two contributions. First we quantify the phenomena of poverty, richness, and inequality in housing comfort … significant rates of poverty (12.41%) and richness (22.03%). The evidence sustains that the differences between households derive …

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Pro poor growth : a partial ordering approach

Sarkar, Sandip - 2014

The paper examines the partial pro poor orderings for different growth curves and sets of Equally Distributed Equivalent growth rate dominance. A new pro poor growth curve as the of change of Gini social welfare function, based on the quantiles of logarithmic income, has been proposed. It has...

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Relative Inequality and Poverty in Germany and the United States Using Alternative Equivalence Scales

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - 1994

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

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Two Scales, One Methodology - Expenditure Based Equivalence Scales for the United States and Germany

Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - 1994

, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for …

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Modelling Trade Liberalisation-Poverty Nexus for Ghana

James Nyarkoh, Bright - 2017

The paper examines the effect of trade liberalisation on poverty incidence for Ghana for the period 1960-2013. The … of the study suggest that poverty incidence is negatively related to trade liberalisation in the long-run and short …-run. The implication of the finding is that poverty incidence is reducing with trade liberalisation. Future studies should …

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Chudoba a deprivácia na Slovensku: Metodologické aspekty a empíria

Zelinsky, Tomas - 2014

The main aim of this monograph is to provide a detailed analysis of poverty and deprivation in Slovakia through the … lens of income poverty, subjective poverty, relative material deprivation and asset poverty. This monograph is divided into … three parts. The goal of the first part is to provide an outline of selected concepts in relation to measuring poverty and …

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The dynamics of poverty in Mexico: A multinomial logistic regression analysis

Garza-Rodriguez, Jorge; Fernández-Ramos, Jennifer; … - 2015

analyze the dynamics of chronic and transient poverty in Mexico. Based on the spells approach, transition matrices are … constructed to observe households’ entry into and exit from poverty and multinomial logistic regression is used to analyze which … factors explain the dynamics of poverty in Mexico. It was found that 36% of households are chronically poor and 64% are …

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