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Africa is on time
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier; Pinkovskiy, Maxim L. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2014
We present evidence that the recent African growth renaissance has reached Africa’s poor. Using survey data on African … reduction target on time. The entire continent except for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will reach the MDG in 2014, one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010890132
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Vulnerability to asset-poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Echevin, Damien - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper presents a methodology to measure vulnerability to asset-poverty. Using repeated cross-section data, age cohort decomposition techniques focusing on second-order moments can be used to identify and estimate the variance of shocks on assets and, therefore, the probability of being poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403459
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Can Africa Reduce Poverty by Half by 2015? The Case for a Pro-Poor Growth Strategy
Bigsten, Arne; Shimeles, Abebe - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005
Africa by 2015. A pro-poor growth-scenario and a constant-inequality scenario are compared. It is shown that initial levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651774
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The impact of liberalisation policies on income inequality in african countries
Enowbi Batuo, Michael; Asongu, Simplice A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Despite over three decades of Liberalisation policies in Africa, income-inequality has stayed persistently high. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258091
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Zeit, Wohlstand und Zufriedenheit - multidimensionale Polarisierung von Zeit und Einkommen: Selbständige und abhängig Beschäftigte
Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2016
In dieser Studie werden Zeit, Wohlstand und Zufriedenheit mit einem interdependenten multidimensionalen (IMD …) Polarisierungsansatz von Zeit und Einkommen und der Entwicklung über 20 Jahre in Deutschland analysiert. Mit dem neuen Ansatz zur … (ZBE/ZVE, GTUS) der Jahre 1991/92, 2001/02 und aktuell 2012/13. Prominentes Ergebnis: Die multidimensionale Zeit und …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607340
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Poverty and time
Bossert, Walter; Chakravarty, Satya R.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2010
We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. Our aim is to capture the importance of persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a corresponding individual intertemporal poverty measure. Our first axiom requires that intertemporal poverty is identical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662305
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The sensitivity of distributional measures to the reference period of income
Schröder, Carsten - 2012
When individual or household incomes are collected for administrative or scientific surveys, the reference period of income is sometimes a month, sometimes a quarter, and sometimes a year. This reference period of income likely affects the shape of the distribution and derived measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009552299
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It's About Time : Examining Inequality in the Time Cost of Waiting
Holt, Stephen; Vinopal, Katie - 2021
Time spent waiting for services represents unproductive time imposed on individuals trying to fulfill basic needs …. While qualitative and ethnographic work has found that income disparities also translate into disparities in time kept … waiting for services, little evidence exists to confirm the scale and extent of socioeconomic differences in waiting time. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225770
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Zeit, Wohlstand und Zufriedenheit - multidimensionale Polarisierung von Zeit und Einkommen : selbständige und abhängig Beschäftigte
Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2016
In dieser Studie werden Zeit, Wohlstand und Zufriedenheit mit einem interdependenten multidimensionalen (IMD …) Polarisierungsansatz von Zeit und Einkommen und der Entwicklung über 20 Jahre in Deutschland analysiert. Mit dem neuen Ansatz zur … (ZBE/ZVE, GTUS) der Jahre 1991/92, 2001/02 und aktuell 2012/13. Prominentes Ergebnis: Die multidimensionale Zeit und …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574101
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Inequality and Growth : The Neglected Time Dimension
Halter, Daniel - 2012
: Estimators based on time-series variation indicate a positive link while estimators (also) exploiting the cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115713