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Ceriani, Lidia - 2012

The paper provides the axiomatic characterization of a new poverty measure, the path-dependent poverty index. This is a two period index taking into account not only individuals current and past deprivation levels, but also the relative position with respect to their previous income status....

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Income Fluctuation, Poverty and Well-Being Over Time : Theory and Application to Argentina

2008

This paper studies poverty as a dynamic phenomenon, motivated by the recurringeconomic crises that affect developing countries and the incidence of income fluctuationson household welfare. While the increasing availability of household panel data has beenexploited in theoretical analysis and...

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Safety Nets for the Poor : A Missing International Dimension?

Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2006

Poor persons in poor countries are greatly exposed to the risk of adverse shocks, many of international origin, which can create long-lasting damage to individual well-being. There is a strong moral and prudential case for taking measures which reduce the extent to which such shocks arise and...

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Argentinas Crises and the Poor, 1995-2002

Wodon, Quentin - 2013

This paper documents the impact of Argentinaamp;apos's recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a special focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple rule to compensate for the lack of regional...

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Cheteni, Priviledge; Mah, Gisele; Yohane, Yohane Khamfula - In: Cogent economics & finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-16

This paper argues that the link between poverty and drug-related crime might be spurious. We take an empirical approach to investigate the causality and plausibility of this link. Firstly, we regress crime against envisaged explanatory variables in order to estimate the contribution of poverty...

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A Path-Dependent Poverty Measure

Ceriani, Lidia - 2013

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From unemployment to self-employment : can enterprise policy intensify the risks of poverty?

Danson, Mike; Galloway, Laura; Sherif, Mohamed - In: Critical perspectives on accounting : an international … 75 (2021), pp. 1-15

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Utilitarismo y Mediciones de Pobreza (Utilitarianism and Measurements of Poverty)

Gonzalez, Jorge Ivan - 2012

This paper shows the relationship between utilitarianism and measurements of poverty. Despite efforts to construct … indexes that overcome utilitarianism's limitations, they are still profoundly influenced by the spirit of Bentham. It has not … line. Since it has not been possible to break away from utilitarianism, the best option is to take up the pertinent …

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Ethically robust comparisons of bidimensional distributions with an ordinal attribute

Gravel, Nicholas; Moyes, Patrick - In: Journal of economic theory 147 (2012) 4, pp. 1384-1426

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L' économie morale : pauvreté, crédit et confiance dans l'Europe préindustrielle

Fontaine, Laurence - 2008

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