Reassessing the econometric measurement of inequality and poverty

Measuring Income Inequality and Implications for Economic ...

Anand, Sudhir, 1983, Inequality and Poverty in Malaysia: Measurement and Decomposition. ... Forbes, Kirstin, 2000, “A Reassessment of the Relationship Between ...

28102.pdf - World Bank Documents and Reports

As illustrated in figure 1 with the. “Poverty-Growth-Inequality (PGI) Triangle”, a development strategy is thus fully determined by the rate of growth and ...

Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty and inequality

Incomes in surveys suffer from various measurement problems, most notably in the tails of their distributions. We study the prevalence of negative and zero ...

Measuring the impact of prices on inequality - SpringerLink

Reassessing the econometric measurement of inequality and poverty: toward a cost-of-living approach. Article Open access 11 May 2023. Poverty ...

Understanding the relationship between poverty, inequality and ...

Bhalla (2002) challenged previous use of changes in mean income (or consumption) to measure economic growth rather than changes in GDP per capita and shows that ...

Median-based measures of inequality: Reassessing the increase in ...

22 Citations · Measures of Economic Inequality Focusing on the Status of the Lower and Middle Income Groups · Comparing the Secular Increasing Trend and Effect of ...

Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and ...

The IZA Institute of Labor Economics is an independent economic research institute that conducts research in labor economics and offers evidence-based policy ...

Do data show divergence? Revisiting global income inequality trends

First, high levels of income inequality make it more difficult to reduce poverty through economic growth. Unequal societies in terms of wealth constrain the ...

Revisiting Poverty Trends and the Role of Social Protection Systems ...

Several factors drove these pessimist projections. First, initial modeling exercises assumed a uniform economic shock to global growth rates, rather than ...

Inequality, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Middle East and ...

where g is the measure of real per capita GDP growth rate in country i at time t; αi is a fixed effect reflecting time differences between countries; β1 is the ...

Revisiting the impact of corruption on income inequality worldwide

This is a highly controversial issue that can be discussed along several dimensions. Scholars investigating the impact of corruption on economic ...

Price indexes, inequality, and the measurement of world poverty

Presidential Address, American Economic Association, Atlanta, January 2010. I am grateful to Olivier Dupriez, Alan Heston and Sam ...

INEQUALITY IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD - the United Nations

effect of high and growing inequality on economic growth, poverty, social mobility and political stability. A. Economic inequality. People's opportunities in ...

Poverty and Inequality - Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)

Economic inequality and income distribution. Cambridge University Press. ... Cowell, F. (1995). Measuring Inequality. ... Danziger, S., & Gottschalk, P. (1995).

Income inequality metrics - Wikipedia

Income inequality metrics or income distribution metrics are used by social scientists to measure the distribution of income and economic inequality among ...

Inequality, poverty and economic growth

We focus on extreme, absolute poverty as measured by two or three dollars per day income. Inequality has been hypothesized to negatively affect growth through ...

Income Inequality - U.S. Census Bureau

Are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? Our statistics can shed some light on this. A large number of factors have been identified as ...

Conférence présidentielle Revisiting the Debate on Inequality and

Yet, to understand how inequality affects economic growth and development, it is necessary to understand the role played by these various dimensions and the ...

Economic Inequality and Social Progress* (Chapter 3)

In addition, a wide inequality gap reduces overall well-being, increases poverty, lowers the impact of economic growth on poverty reduction, affects behavior ...

Reconsidering Culture and Poverty - Scholars at Harvard

economic determinants of paternal involvement in poor ... Justifying inequality: A social psychological analysis of beliefs about poverty and inequality.