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Macroeconomic Fundamentals of Poverty and Deprivation: an empirical study for developed countries

Guimarães, Duarte; Ribeiro, Ana Paula; Silva, Sandra … - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2012

This study aims at providing a positive contribution to the literature on the macroeconomic determinants of poverty which is particularly relevant since this type of analysis is rather scarce (e.g., Agénor, 2005). After a brief review on the macroeconomic mechanisms of poverty and deprivation,...

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Negative Net Incomes and the Measurement of Poverty: A Note

Sandoval, Héctor H.; Urzúa, Carlos M. - In: Revista de Administración, Finanzas y Economía … 3 (2009) 1, pp. 29-36

This note warns about the careless computation of poverty indexes when the welfare of each household is measured by its …

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