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. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and … methods. In 2015, 2.5 per cent of the sample had per capita incomes imputed, resulting in slightly higher levels of inequality …
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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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high and stable growth and a decline in the poverty rate. Although rising, however, inequality is low in Ghana compared …Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently … understanding of the extent and nature of inequality. From these measures, we know that inequality has been rising in Ghana despite …
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addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
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In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … multidimensional deprivation using the MDI is that this index is sensitive to inequality and can be fully broken down by deprivation …
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avoid this, the present paper discusses a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality: the ratio of the income … changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thereby help perpetuate it. To …
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avenues for further research. -- well-being ; multidimensional poverty ; distance function ; Catalonia …
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This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...
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field of distributional analysis. To this end, it covers subjects including inequality, poverty, and the modeling of income …
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empirical support for the claim that acquisition diaries yield the most accurate measurement of poverty and inequality and offer …
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