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People who are unable to maintain the same standard of living as others around them experience a sense of relative deprivation that has been shown to reduce feelings of well-being. Relative deprivation reflects conditions of worsening relative poverty despite striking reductions in absolute...
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The paper describes inequality trends in selected emerging economies (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, China, India …, health status, employment and subjective well-being). Inequalities are analysed not only in terms of overall dispersion, but … of living). To the extent made possible by the nature of available data, measures of income inequality for these emerging …
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Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth respondents over time, I compare siblings...
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and Health, Does Rationalisation of Grants Matter?.-Measurement and Determinants of Efficiency of Government and … fundamentals in India on several dimensions, especially health, education, quality of public spending, taxation orientation …
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Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards …. While most of the inequality originates from the labour market, wealth – and thus capital income – is also highly … towards universal health coverage, the financing and organisation of the health care system could be improved to raise the …
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Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across population groups with the elderly, people with...
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Underrepresentation of minority and poor households in scientific studies undermines policy decisions and public health …
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the Greek crisis on inequality and poverty in 2009-2014 using the micro-simulation model EUROMOD. Specifically, the paper …-2014, a period for which survey data are not yet publicly available. The results indicate that inequality, as measured by most … the relative improvement in terms of income may have been offset by difficulties in access to health care. The paper also …
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We introduce a new class of generalized measures of relative deprivation. The class takes the form of a power mean of order p . A characteristic of the class is that depending on the value of the proximity-sensitive parameter p , the class is capable of accommodating both a decreasing weight...
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