[PDF] Top 20 Measuring economic inequality: deprivation, economising and possessing

... of measuring the deprivation or poverty of persons is to use money based measures: a person is regarded as "poor" if his/her income (or expenditure) falls below a poverty line ...of ... See full document

... The final feature relating to organising the data is an economic measure of deprivation. In two seminal papers, Basu (2001, 2006) proposed a quintile axiom, according to which “we should focus attention on ... See full document

... of deprivation that have been applied in a health care context and suggested by GPs as useful such as the Townsend score158 and the Jarman index159, unemployment rates160, the standardised mortality rate (SMR) for ... See full document

... the inequality of the results as an important aspect hold the fact that we all should have set equal chances and the same starting conditions at the start of our ...of inequality between the conditions of ... See full document

... material deprivation measure over income, they state: ‘we can use material deprivation as a proxy for long-term financial status…’ and conclude ‘material deprivation seems to contain some additional ... See full document

... Background: Some recent research has suggested that health-related behaviours, such as smoking, might explain much of the socio-economic inequalities in coronary heart disease (CHD) risk. In a large prospective ... See full document

... evidence suggests that this is a ‘weak’ measure due to issues around eligibility criteria. In Australia parents are asked about their education and occupation when their child enrols in the school. An index categorises ... See full document

...  Haddad, L., H. Alderman, S. Appleton, L. Song and Y. Yohannes, 2002. “Reducing Child Undernutrition: How far does Income Growth Take Us?”, FCND Discussion Paper # 137, Food Consumption and Nutrition Division, ... See full document

... and Inequality measures have remained the two most important tools for measuring welfare of a ...or inequality trends in a society? To elaborate the point consider the fact that, in many developing ... See full document

... our deprivation index has the potential to explain the socio-economic deprivation in the study area accurately because i) the important rights-based indicators used, ii) the consistency of experts’ ... See full document

... of Economising Learning. The Theory of Economising Learning adds to existing knowledge through the identification and explanation of the behaviours nurses use to determine if they will engage with a ... See full document

... How inequality affects the decision to be aspirational and how adversely health is affected by that decision are topics for further ...of inequality and aspirations ... See full document

... or economic background leads to income ...income inequality is the very unequal distribution of productive assets such as land and capital which is a common phenomenon in Third World ... See full document

... Terrain, organisation and tactics: Naxalism thrives in the hilly and plateau areas of the thinly populated Central India which has little in terms of roads and telecommunication or socio-economic infrastructure. ... See full document

... to inequality in consumption as expressed in the development aid given by rich countries to poor ones between 1965 and ...greater inequality between rich and poor ... See full document

... of economic actors and shape economic ...different economic institutions and ...affect economic policies. Economists agree that economic institutions and policies are determined ...in ... See full document

... silencing their concerns and thus bestowing upon them increased punitive controls and harsh sentences (see Gallagher, 2011; Briggs 2012a). Whilst indicative correlates such as poor parenting are associated with offending ... See full document

... 5 | P a g e This calculation yields G=0.327. It is quiet surprising that the average Gini index of the 35 countries of the OECD in 2012 is almost identical to that obtained here theoretically for network economy in ... See full document

... income inequality and economic growth. Income inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of income, that is, the gap between the rich and the poor in a ...income inequality and ... See full document

... on economic growth by using the Barro Type endogenous growth model, via its impact on physical capital, human capital and labor over the period of 1987 to 2007 in ...influence economic growth directly as ... See full document