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analyzes the potential effects of fuel prices on poverty and inequality in Paraguay. Using microsimulation methods and based on … the Commitment to Equity framework, it estimates the impact of higher fuel prices on welfare, poverty, and inequality …The recent global increases in fuel prices threaten the gains in poverty reduction that countries like Paraguay have …
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Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … as the first line of defense against self-interest and inequality. Absent a strong and clear link between inequality and … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its …
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Social scientists study two kinds of inequality: inequality between persons (as in income inequality) and inequality … between subgroups (as in racial inequality). This paper analyzes the mathematical connections between the two kinds of … inequality. The paper proceeds by exploring a set of two-parameter continuous probability distributions widely used in economic …
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This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower...
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traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty …
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provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis … trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper … of exports to workers reduces income inequality measured by the Gini coefficient by 0.17 points (using a 0 to 100 scale …
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This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and … Income Project indicate that while, assessed against an absolute poverty line, poverty among Chinese urban residents was … already fairly low in 2007, increasing proportions fell under a relative poverty line from 1988 to 2007. Thus income growth in …
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Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the … last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and … income, which in particular restricts social participation. The interdependency of the multiple poverty dimensions under a …
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This paper provides new evidence about poverty trends in Turkey between 2003 and 2011 and the factors accounting for … them. We give particular attention to issues of statistical inference, and the choice of the poverty line and the poverty … measure. Our robust conclusion is that absolute poverty declined rapidly between 2003 and 2008 but fell only slightly between …
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Income as the traditional one dimensional measure in well-being and poverty analyses is extended in recent studies by a … multidimensional poverty concept. Though this is certainly a progress, however, two important aspects are missing: time as an important … dimension and the interdependence of the often only separately counted multiple poverty dimensions. Our paper will contribute to …
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