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This paper aims to analyse trends in poverty and inequality in seven African countries using an asset index constructed … overall inequality. Only in Zambia has overall inequality increased. Experiences in regards to trends in urban and rural … inequality are mixed. These results, however, should be interpreted with caution, given the various conceptual and methodological …
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This paper deals with incomes of Russian population, as well as the issues of inequality an poverty in the country. …
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This paper deals with incomes of Russian population, as well as the issues of inequality an poverty in the country. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617686
This paper argues that the evaluation of a society's economic well-being should account for the employment risk associated with being a temporary worker and for the relative income loss of young generations with respect to older ones. We show that the inclusion of new measures of both these...
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This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality … and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz Curves to represent inequality is also provided. It highlights …
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This paper illustrates how Lorenz Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. After highlighting some drawbacks of using specific functional forms of the Social...
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a slight reduction of inequality). The work tries to show the relationship between both economic variables, as well as …
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including net imputed rent in the tax base might affect inequality in each of the countries considered. Housing taxation appears … to be a promising avenue for raising additional revenues, or lightening taxation of labour, with no inequality …
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Previous child health evidence in Kenya has been based on uni-dimensional poverty analysis. Assessing the multiple aspects of child well-being can help, however, reveal complexities and ambiguities in the distribution of child well-being. This paper analyses multidimensional aspects of child...
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on the Italian population and its effect on income distribution, in particular on inequality and poverty, both for the … to the definition of income brings to a reduction in inequality and poverty. The main beneficiaries from the imputed rent …
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