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Estimating utility-consistent poverty in Ethiopia, 2000-11

Stifel, David; Woldehanna, Tassew - 2015

We adapt the standardized Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software (PLEASe) computer code stream based on Arndt and Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011. Several data-related issues create challenges to estimating the spatial and...

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An alternative measure of economic inequality in the light of optics

Majumder, Amlan - 2014

presence of inequality, however, it deviates or refracts from the ideal condition. In this paper, I try to measure economic … inequality from the index of refraction. First, I compute such an index for each stratum to evaluate condition in each and then … add all to propose an overall measure of economic inequality, which appears to be a standardised measure of the length of …

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An alternative measure of economic inequality under the Lorenz curve framework in analogue to the index of refraction of geometrical optics

Majumder, Amlan - 2015

Index of refraction is found to be a good measure of economic inequality within the Lorenz curve framework. It has …. While an index value of less than 1.00 represents an ‘anomalous refraction' in optics, such a condition of inequality …

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Inequality adjustment criteria for the human development index

Casadio Tarabusi, Enrico; Guarini, Giulio - 2010

Our goal is to analyse the inequality aspects of Human Development Index and to propose a new aggregation function that … can adjust it by considering inequality penalisation. We take into account inequality across dimensions and across … individuals and three laws of inequality penalisation: decreasing, constant and increasing. At the beginning, we describe the …

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Redistributive impacts of fiscal policies in Mexico : corrections for top income measurement problems

Hlásny, Vladimír - 2019

) correcting for potential top-income measurement problems. We use two correction methods based on within-survey information to re … yield higher inequality as measured by the Gini (0-9 pc.pt. increase) and the top 1% and 10% income shares (0-5, and 1-5 pc … mismeasurement rise. Taxable income is subject to the highest inequality, which further undergoes the highest upward correction for …

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Mozambique : off-track or temporarily sidelined?

Arndt, Channing; Jones, E. Samuel; Tarp, Finn - 2015

Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in...

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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone : a cross country comparison using the HFCS

Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2014

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a multidimensional setting by considering the joint...

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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty

Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2020

measure of unfair inequality that reconciles two widely-held fairness principles: equality of opportunity and freedom from …Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper we address this shortcoming by developing a new …

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Vulnerability to poverty : Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis

Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Ksennia; Landon-Lane, John S.; … - 2016

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...

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Multi-dimensional poverty among adults in Central America and gender differences in the three I's of poverty : applying inequality sensitive poverty measures with ordinal variables

Espinoza-Delgado, José; Silber, Jacques - 2018

The Alkire and Foster (2011) methodology, as the mainstream approach to the measurement of multi-dimensional poverty in … the developing world, is insensitive to inequality among the multidimensionally poor individuals and does not consider … measurement (2013, 2017), we propose in this paper to depart somehow from the mainstream approach and take an individual-based and …

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