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positive than one might have hoped. While per capita incomes have risen and poverty has declined, progress has been painfully … persistent levels of inequality in Palanpur have resulted in the capture of village-level collective institutions and the …
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, as well as the use of distributional approxima-tions. For non-separable inequality measures we derive specific formulas …
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by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline …
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Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further … highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide abroad overview of the pros and cons of poverty … review two common uses of poverty imputation methods that aim at tracking poverty over time and estimating poverty dynamics …
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Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further … highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad overview of the pros and cons of poverty … review two common uses of poverty imputation methods that aim at tracking poverty over time and estimating poverty dynamics …
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not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to … diversification could thus yield significant returns in terms of declining poverty and increased income mobility. The evidence from … Palanpur also shows, however, that at the village-level a significant increase in income inequality has accompanied …
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Standard approaches to decomposing how much group differences contribute to inequality rarely show significant between …-group inequality, and are of limited use in comparing populations with different numbers of groups. This study applies an adaptation to …
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consumption. The authors find that the correlation between poverty and household size vanishes in Pakistan when the size … poverty. The authors show that the incidence of severe child stunting is more elastic to household size than their Engel curve … poverty - notably the extent to which it is used to inform policies aimed at promoting child welfare - may go some way toward …
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