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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - 2010
in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444749
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Measuring polarization via poverty and affluence
Scheicher, Christoph - 2008 - 2nd version: June 24, 2010
measures of poverty and of affluence, focussing on incomes outside a middle class interval. The approach is applied to German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008937251
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Using efficiency analysis to measure individual well-being with an illustration for Catalonia
Ramos Morilla, Xavier (contributor) - 2005
avenues for further research. -- well-being ; multidimensional poverty ; distance function ; Catalonia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003095436
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Using Efficiency Analysis to Measure Individual Well-Being with an Illustration for Catalonia
Ramos, Xavier - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318262
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The insights and illusions of consumption measurements
Battistin, Erich; De Nadai, Michele; Krishnan, Nandini - 2020
empirical support for the claim that acquisition diaries yield the most accurate measurement of poverty and inequality and offer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012212691
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Measuring Unfair Inequality : Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
Hufe, Paul - 2018
fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912680
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Measuring Unfair Inequality : Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
Hufe, Paul - 2018
fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915714
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Differences in inequality measurement : Ghana case study
Atta-Ankomah, Richmond; Lambon-Quayefio, Monica; Osei, … - 2023
high and stable growth and a decline in the poverty rate. Although rising, however, inequality is low in Ghana compared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314684
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Deprivation and the dimnensionality of welfare : a variable-selection cluster-analysis approach
Caruso, Germán; Sosa Escudero, Walter; Svarc, Marcela - 2011
the "poor/non-poor" classification in the first stage. -- Multidimensional welfare ; poverty ; factory analysis ; clusters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008772508
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Distributional change, reference groups, and the measurement of relative deprivation
Silber, Jacques; Verme, Paolo - In: Studies in applied welfare analysis : papers from the …, (pp. 197-217). 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908107