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longitudinal surveys and the at-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion framework to analyze recent temporal trends in absolute … multidimensional poverty across the 27 countries in the European Union and its subregions. The analysis quantifies the extent …, composition, and factors associated with the higher risks of multidimensional poverty across four countries (Bulgaria, Romania …
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This paper reviews methods that have been employed to estimate poverty in contexts where household consumption data are … of poverty outcomes over time. It presents the various methods under a common framework, with pedagogical discussion on …
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This paper offers an axiomatic characterization of two classes of poverty measures that are sensitive to inequality of … opportunity, one a strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty … indices, based on a rank-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. In empirical analysis …
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measurement, with a focus on establishing absolute poverty lines. Based on this framework, the paper identifies several gaps in …This paper presents a unified analytical framework to organize and review the literature on consumption-based poverty … the existing literature and areas where applied poverty analysts would benefit from sharper recommendations. Based on …
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This paper assesses corruption levels and trends among countries in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) based on data from several sources that are both widely used and cover most or all countries in the region. Data from firm surveys tend to show improvement in...
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communication. The recommendations focus on globalmultidimensional poverty measures. The paper identifies three potential sources of …
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This paper presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare, and a tool to help decision makers identify the most promising policy options to reduce welfare...
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evidence on changes in overlapping deprivations using a non-index approach to multidimensional poverty. It assesses the … overlap between different dimensions of poverty and examines how this has changed over time in Ethiopia and across rural and … urban areas. It highlights that although Ethiopia’s multidimensional poverty index is very high, there have been …
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The state of Bahia, Brazil has made progress in reducing poverty and improving social indicators in the past decade …. Despite this progress, Bahia's poverty is among the highest and its social indicators are among the lowest in Brazil …. Currently, 41 percent of Bahia's population live in households below the poverty level, a drop of 14 percentage points since …
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for poverty and social indicators. This linkage facilitates the analysis of the impact of various macroeconomic shocks on … a selected set of key social indicators. Poverty analysis is performed by the use of a poverty equation (which is … estimated using pooled data for a group of low-income countries) that links the incidence of poverty to inflation, the literacy …
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