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Educational Inequality and Educational Poverty - The Chinese Case in the Period 1975-2004

Saccone, Donatella - 2009

Together with the economic transition, in China the return to education and the skill premium increased; this phenomenon was deeply demonstrated by a large number of studies identifying it with one of the main cause of the increasing inequalities at national, regional and sector level. For this...

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Measuring Education Inequality : Gini Coefficients of Education

Thomas, Vinod; Wang, Yan; Fan, Xibo - 2014

Equal access to education is a basic human right. But in many countries gaps in education between various groups are staggering. An education Gini index - a new indicator for the distribution of human capital and welfare - facilitates comparison of education inequality across countries and over...

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Alternative Weighting Structures for Multidimensional Poverty Assessment

Cavapozzi, Danilo; Han, Wei; Miniaci, Raffaele - 2014

A multidimensional poverty assessment requires a weighting scheme to aggregate the well-being dimensions considered. We use Alkire and Foster’s (2011a) framework to discuss the channels through which a change of the weighting structure affects the outcomes of the analysis in terms of overall...

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Inter-Country Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach

Reddy, Sanjay G.; Visaria, Sujata; Asali, Muhammad - 2014

We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the basic requirements of human beings are superior to the existing money-metric approaches. In this exercise, we implement a uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic...

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Chapter 6 Income poverty in advanced countries

Jäntti, Markus; Danziger, Sheldon - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 309-378). 2000

This chapter reviews definitional issues that arise in assessing the extent of, and change in, poverty in western industrialized countries, including the choice of resource, level of poverty line and appropriate adjustments for the size and type of the income-sharing unit. The chapter also...

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Gini index, inequality comparisons and maximin axiom: a paradox

MESNARD, Louis de - Laboratoire d'Économie de Dijon (LEDI), Université de … - 1999

Inequality is appreciated only through a relevant measure, traditionally the Gini index, but this one presents a weakness that prevents to consider it as valid: to a same Gini may correspond many distributions. For the most simple case, a concentration curve with two linear segments, a criterion...

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Yet, two more revisions to the Human Development Index

Beja, Edsel Jr. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) was presented in the 20th anniversary edition of the Human Development Reports, in 2010. In using a penalty setup for the calculations of the IHDI, however, the results overestimate the adjustments on the HDI. This paper suggests a revision...

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India Protection Index

Shukla, Rajesh; Rai, Anil; Monga, Nitasha - In: Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research 4 (2010) 3, pp. 339-367

The success and failure of any democratic government is gauged in terms of how effectively it has fulfilled its constitutional obligation of enhancing social and economic well-being, particularly the common man. While developed economies use a set of indices to measure well-being, a systematic...

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Local Public Transport Service and Equity: an Analysis at Regional Basis

Bigerna S. - In: Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno (2011) 4, pp. 919-944

The paper analyses the issue of vertical equity relative to Local Public Transportation service with particular … attention to resources and/or sacrifices allocation among different users groups. The evaluation of vertical equity can be … components technique. There emerges a scenario of regional differences of equity characterized by the Centre and North …

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Bootstraps not Band-Aids: Poverty, Equity and Social Policy in Latin America

Birdsall, Nancy; Szekely, Miguel - 2003

After a decade of economic reforms that dramatically altered the structure of economies in Latin America, making them more open and more competitive, and a decade of substantial increases in public spending on education, health and other social programs in virtually all countries, poverty and...

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