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Disparities in Socio-Economic Outcomes: Some Positive Propositions and their Normative Implications
Lambert, Peter J.; Subramanian, S. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
analytically, providing a criterion from stochastic ordering theory under which one of two demographic groups can be considered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878127
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Germany's Healthcare System : Funding, Resource Allocation, Provider Payment, Efficiency, and Access
Michaeli, Daniel T.; Yagmur, Hasan; Michaeli, Thomas - 2022
system by critically analysing its structure, funding, resource allocation, provider payments, efficiency, health outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014085051
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Disability Shocks Near Retirement Age and Financial Well-Being
Dushi, Irena - 2015
Using Health and Retirement Study data, we examine three groups of adults aged 51–56 in 1992 with different disability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035200
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Poverty and Inequality in Brazil : The Depletion of the Distributive Effects of the Real Plan
Rocha, Sonia - 2000
The persistence of absolute poverty in Brazil is associated with high levels of income inequality. For this article, this association is the departing point for presenting a schematic evolution of poverty in Brazil in the last three decades: a sharp decline in the 70's as income grew at high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153704
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Bootstraps not Band-Aids: Poverty, Equity and Social Policy in Latin America
Birdsall, Nancy; Szekely, Miguel - 2003
After a decade of economic reforms that dramatically altered the structure of economies in Latin America, making them more open and more competitive, and a decade of substantial increases in public spending on education, health and other social programs in virtually all countries, poverty and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162682
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A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - 2014
poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352313
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A survey of inclusive growth policy
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk; Wood, Jacob - In: Economies 7 (2019) 3, pp. 1-18
Background: Since the latter part of the 20th Century, countries have been particularly challenged by the trade-off that exists between delivering generous welfare provisions and strong economic growth. Such dynamics have stimulated a need to better understand the causes of income inequality so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013199577
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On the Concept of Equity in Opportunity
Son, Hyun H. - 2011
Measuring the equity of opportunity in a given society is an essential ingredient in the formulation of policies and … programs that promote inclusive growth. In this paper, equity of opportunity is defined and measured through the theoretical …, respectively. The concepts of relative and absolute measures of equity of opportunity are then introduced and a social opportunity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507307
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Poverty and time
Bossert, Walter; Chakravarty, Satya R.; Ambrosio, … - 2010
We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. Our aim is to capture the importance of persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a corresponding individual intertemporal poverty measure. Our first axiom requires that intertemporal poverty is identical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280203
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On the concept of equity in opportunity
Son, Hyun H. - 2011
Measuring the equity of opportunity in a given society is an essential ingredient in the formulation of policies and … programs that promote inclusive growth. In this paper, equity of opportunity is defined and measured through the theoretical …, respectively. The concepts of relative and absolute measures of equity of opportunity are then introduced and a social opportunity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379832