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This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indices (some of them … parameter value that captures the ethical sensitivity of poverty measurement to "exclusion" or "relative-deprivation" aversion …. The indices can be readily used to predict the impact of growth on poverty. An illustration using LIS data finds that the …
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Assessing whether distributional changes are "pro-poor" has become increasingly widespread in academic and policy circles. Starting from relatively general ethical axioms, this paper proposes simple graphical methods to test whether distributional changes are indeed pro-poor. Pro-poor standards...
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More and more economists and politicians are advocating the use of comprehensive measures of well-being, on top of the usual national accounting measures, to assess the welfare of populations. Researchers using subjective well-being data should be aware of the potential biasing effects of the...
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multidimensional inequality “frontier”, we are able to reconcile the literature on multivariate relative poverty and multivariate …The paper investigates how comparisons of multivariate inequality can be made robust to varying the intensity of focus … on the share of the population that are more relatively deprived. It follows the dominance approach to making inequality …
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market, together with the increase in the transfers received by households, results in an increase in their income. Poverty …
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incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both an aversion to inequality in permanent … inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada’s tax system limits significantly the … effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that we use. Globally …
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incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada’s tax system limits … income equalizing effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that …
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ethically flexible tools that integrate these two strands. This is achieved using a measure of inequality that merges the well … transfers into a vertical equity effect and a loss of redistribution due to either classical HI or reranking. An inequality …-change approach and a money-metric cost-of-inequality approach are developed. The latter approach makes aggregate classical HI …
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This note provides simple tests for first-order bi-polarization orderings of distributions of living standards. In doing so, the paper also offers an ethical basis and an interpretation for the common use of some simple measures of distances from the median. Illustrations using Luxembourg Income...
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We propose simple graphical methods to identify poverty-reducing transfer program reforms. The methods are based on … Program Dominance curves that display cumulative program benefits weighted by powers of poverty gaps. These curves can be … assessment of program reforms is sensitive to the choice of poverty lines and poverty measures as well as to differences in …
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