Poverty Measures
Dynamic Poverty Measures
... How poverty is measured is a central topic in economic and policy ...lar poverty levels at particular instants (based on several indices available in the literature) that matter the ...of poverty ...
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Poverty measures: from production to use
... For poverty measures, the institutional level is often government related, as governments have the historical monopoly or economies of scale to collect information about their ...and poverty ...
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Multidimensional Rank Based Poverty Measures A Case Study: Tunisia
... measured poverty in the composite welfare indicator and we found that poverty has decreased between 1994 and ...FGT poverty measures developed by Bourguignon and Chakravarty (1998, 2003) and ...
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Decomposition of Changes in Poverty Measures: Sectoral and Institutional Considerations for the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper of Pakistan
... on poverty is independent of the Lorenz curve (or equivalently, if the distributional effect is independent of the mean) ...the poverty measure is additively separable between u and L or (ii) the changes in ...
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Distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures with an application to India
... All poverty measures incorporate a set of social ...multidimensional measures of poverty, and amongst the latter, of counting measures as well as social welfare measures ...
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Using Asset Poverty Measures to Understand Poverty Dynamics, Poverty Traps and Farmer Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Focus on Rural Ethiopia
... Effective poverty reduction programs require careful measurement of poverty ...of poverty aggregate together households that are persistently poor with those who are only in poverty due to ...
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Impacts of Policies on Poverty Basic Poverty Measures
... the poverty line is ...the poverty line, there are again two people who are not above the poverty ...line. Poverty, as measured by HC, is again ...the poverty line are increased by 20 ...
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The Failures of American Poverty Measures
... After a review of such official mea- sures, this article discusses alternative means of evaluating need in the United States, highlighting the benefits of examining poverty across the l[r] ...
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Multi dimensional poverty among adults in Central America and gender differences in the three I’s of poverty: Applying inequality sensitive poverty measures with ordinal variables
... of poverty severity”, on the other hand (Rippin, 2017, ...dimensional poverty severity, depending on i) the number of variables (attributes) in which they are simultaneously deprived, and ii) the type of ...
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Analysis of Household Poverty and Household Vulnerability to Poverty: The Role of Social Protection Measures in Reducing Household Poverty and Vulnerability in Katakwi District-Uganda
... household poverty and household vulnerability to poverty in the context of post- conflict districts of Teso-sub-region are mostly retrospective in ...ex-ante measures in reducing household ...
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POVERTY IMPACT OF THE FOOD CRISIS ON POVERTY IN CAMBODIA
... of poverty based on these poverty lines for different groups of households using three poverty measures (see Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke ...the poverty headcount: the percentage of ...
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Poverty and Poverty Dynamics in Rural Ethiopia
... of poverty, termed poverty ...protracted poverty are labelled the chronic poor 3 ...transient poverty differ from the determinants of persistent or chronic poverty (Oduro 2002: ...which ...
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The relationship between alternative measures of social spending and poverty rates
... income measures on which poverty rate calculations are ...and poverty rates, we would want a poverty measure that incorporates the effects of the factors that have been added to (or subtracted ...
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The Psychiatrization of Poverty: Rethinking the Mental Health-Poverty Nexus
... Both poverty and ‘mental illness’ are constructs that function in particular social contexts at particular historical ...Often poverty is measured by looking at income and consumption (per capita household ...
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Anti Poverty Strategies for the UK: Poverty and Crime Review
... between poverty and crime at the neighbourhood level suggests that socioeconomic conditions predict area-level crime rates and exacerbate social dislocation within ...
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Impacts of Policies on Poverty Absolute Poverty Lines
... cases, poverty here is taken to be a situation where too little energy intake or too little specific nutrients are ...a poverty line, nutritional information must be converted into monetary ...
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Few measures of U.S. economic performance receive greater attention. Winning the War: Poverty from the Great Society to the Great Recession
... of poverty in the United States from the early 1960s to ...that poverty has shown little improvement over time or that antipoverty efforts have been ...income-based measures of poverty to a ...
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Impacts of Policies on Poverty Relative Poverty Lines
... “relative” poverty lines, i.e. poverty lines based on approaches that consider the welfare position of each individual or household in relation to the welfare position of other individuals or households ...
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Poverty in perspective
... tackle poverty – we saw at first hand the challenges associated with matching local data, and found most the data available were from the 2001 Census or other out-dated studies, and that often this provided ...
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Women and Poverty in Nigeria: Agenda for Poverty Eradication
... towards poverty alleviation specifically among women and Nigerians in ...established poverty alleviation programmes such as the national poverty eradication programme (NAPEP), national directorate of ...
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