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The wave of upbeat stories on the developing world's emerging middle class has reinvigorated a debate on how social class in general and the middle class in particular ought to be defined and empirically measured. With the aim of adding clarity to this debate, this dissertation provides a...
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High inequality in incomes and assets and persistent poverty continue to plague Latin America and remain a central … economic affairs use these new approaches to examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in Latin America and the ability of … policy to address them. - Contributors first analyze the historical evolution of inequality in Latin America, examining such …
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We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and panel data. We use long-term panel data from Germany and apply different regression models, based on household covariates and previous-year equivalence income, to classify a...
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We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and panel data. We use long-term panel data from Germany and apply different regression models, based on household covariates and previous-year equivalence income, to classify a...
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In this paper we analyse household income mobility dynamics among Africans in South Africa's most populous province, Kwazulu-Natal, between 1993 and 1998. Compared to industrialized and most developing countries, mobility has been quite high, as might have been expected after the transition in...
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