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Testing for Pro-Poorness of Growth Through the Tax System : The Mexican Case

Huesca, Luis - 2018

This research provides a detailed examination of the redistributive effect achieved by the tax system including total taxes and cash transfers targeting the contributors and households in the period 2002-2008-2014 for the Mexican regions and the country. We measure the impact on income growth...

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Expected Poverty Changes with Economic Growth and Redistribution

Araar, Abdelkrim - 2018

or that of the change in inequality on poverty. During the last few years, there was a growing interest to perform such … Goal (MDG, henceforth), that is to cut poverty by half. As is illustrated in this paper, estimated poverty changes may be … a new numerical method to allow to estimate accurately the impact of distributive changes on poverty …

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Poverty and Wellbeing Impacts of Microfinance : What Do We Know?

Maitrot, Mathilde - 2017

poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … income, consumption, human capital and assets, and, ultimately, a reduction in poverty …

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Relative Deprivation in Tanzania

Atsebi, Jean-Marc - 2019

This paper examines the importance of relative deprivation in Tanzania, a poor African country, using three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Survey. We contribute to earlier literature in Africa by controlling for time persistent unobservable individual characteristics (panel data) and by...

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Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect Theory

Pirttila, Jukka - 2014

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated …

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Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect Theory

Pirttila, Jukka - 2014

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Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect Theory

Pirttila, Jukka - 2014

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048827

Does the Risk of Poverty Reduce Happiness?

Caria, Antonio Stefano - 2014

We investigate the unexplored link between the risk of poverty and happiness in the context of a developing country …. Using unique longitudinal data, we estimate workers' vulnerability to income-poverty and find a strong negative relationship …

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The socioeconomic determinants of urban poverty in Saudi Arabia

Al Lily, Miriam; Waibel, Hermann - 2021

This paper presents results from one of the first independent socioeconomic household surveys to study urban poverty … among Saudi nationals. This survey was administered to 496 Saudi households in Dammam in 2019. Poverty is conceptualised as … relative poverty, which is based on the country’s inflation adjusted national poverty line of $6 per person per day. The …

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Multinationals, International Business and Poverty : A Cross-Disciplinary Research Overview and Conceptual Framework

Kolk, Ans - 2018

This paper examines the role of multinationals and international business in poverty alleviation, based on an analysis … that maps and disentangles the impact of different types of international business activities on five dimensions of poverty … poverty is still unclear overall, we contribute to research and policy debates by identifying key insights from and main gaps …

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