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The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU's portfolio of primary indicators … drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, we explain how the … near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from current poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291391
Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of ?poverty? and inequality? and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260927
The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU's portfolio of primary indicators … drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, we explain how the … near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from current poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096150
This paper provides new evidence about poverty trends in Turkey between 2003 and 2011 and the factors accounting for … them. We give particular attention to issues of statistical inference, and the choice of the poverty line and the poverty … measure. Our robust conclusion is that absolute poverty declined rapidly between 2003 and 2008 but fell only slightly between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071446
I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades …; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and … the future direction of EU-level anti-poverty actions. I follow in the footsteps of a giant – my perspectives are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894559
A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive ‘synthetic panel' data estimates of poverty dynamics …
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A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive 'synthetic panel' data estimates of poverty dynamics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920432
Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of 'poverty' and 'inequality' and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317012
We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of income growth across the income range, and the reshuffling of individuals in the income pecking order. We use it to explain how it was possible both for "the poor" to have fared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319687
genuine state dependence in poverty. We also provide estimates of low income transition rates and lengths of poverty and non-poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014115094