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-oriented analysis. This paper examines empirical strategies to measure poverty and inequality in multiple domains, concentrating on two …
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This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a …
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no official definition of energy poverty (EP). The purpose of this study is to provide the reader with a set of … indicators to fill this gap. We present a range of poverty measures which estimate that between 5 and 20 per cent of households …
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Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile … poverty with focus on the period 2002/03 to 2008/09. The paper contributes in four areas. First, the period in question was …
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insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …
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The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government.s stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …
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the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency of … high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … inequality to increase poverty. Based on the basic needs approach, an analysis-of-covariance model is estimated, with the …
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growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears …
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This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that det
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A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual …
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