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experience a higher degree of income poverty and costs in terms of people’s reduced likelihood of being able to access medical or …
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likely effects on poverty, inequality, and economic mobility. While poverty has declined, inequality has remained relatively … high and stable over nearly four decades. In this paper, for the first time, we examine poverty and inequality in a dynamic …. Focusing on the dynamics of poverty, we distinguish between short- and long-term poor and between chronic and transient poverty …
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The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty in the context of … 1964–2011. The regression model encompassing the impact of economic growth and inequality on poverty reflects that a 1 …% increase in income while keeping the distribution constant reduces poverty around 0.162% in rural, 0.256% in urban, 0.471% in …
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between-district inequalities to national inequality and examines the relationship between household poverty and inequality … a significant effect on household poverty, but with varying signs. We surmise that the variation in signs is as a result … of the state of economic activity and factors that affect both poverty and inequality. …
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A poverty reduction failure index is a measure of the extent of inability of a society to reduce its poverty level …. This paper develops an ordering for ranking alternative income distributions in terms of poverty reduction failures. The … ordering can be easily implemented by using the generalized Lorenz or the Three I's of poverty (TIP) curve dominance criterion …
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examines whether, and to what degree, indicators of material deprivation, subjective poverty and subjective well-being are …
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This paper aims to present a theoretical survey of the capability approach in an interdisciplinary and accessible way. It focuses on the main conceptual and theoretical aspects of the capability approach, as developed by Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum, and others. The capability approach is a...
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In addressing operational challenges such as poverty or economic development, many researchers and practitioners wish …
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