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This chapter is concerned with issues arising from the construction of ethical measures of inequality and poverty. The … recent literature on measurement of inequality and poverty emphasizes the close connection between social welfare functions … and ethical indices of inequality and poverty. This chapter surveys the main issues in this literature. In particular, we …
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The impacts of trade liberalisation in South Asia on poverty and income inequality in Sri Lanka are examined in this …-agent approach employing micro-household survey data is used to estimate the income inequality and poverty effects. Two trade … and Thorbecke indices reveal that poverty would also decline in all three sectors. In both instances, unilateral trade …
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The government is rightly concerned with employment generation to make growth inclusive. The use of the open unemployment rate to measure its success, however, is misplaced. In a developing country with a large informal sector and in the absence of unemployment insurance, open unemployment is...
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