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Well-Being, Inequality and Time: The Time-Slice Problem and its Policy Implications [PDF]
, 2007 Should equality be viewed from a lifetime or sublifetime perspective? In measuring the inequality of income, for example, should we measure the inequality of lifetime income or of annual income? In characterizing a tax as progressive or regressive,
Adler, Matthew D.
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Impact of natural disasters on income inequality in Sri Lanka [PDF]
, 2018 We explore the relationship between natural disasters and income inequality in Sri Lanka as the first study of this nature for the country. The analysis uses a unique panel data set constructed for the purpose of this paper.
Abdullah +30 more
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International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2020 Background: To determine socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular health (CVH) metrics among Peruvian adults as well as differences according to sex.
Akram Hernández-Vásquez +4 more
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Risk Equity: A New Proposal [PDF]
, 2007 What does distributive justice require of risk regulators? Various executive orders enjoin health and safety regulators to take account of “distributive impacts,” “equity,” or “environmental justice,” and many scholars endorse these requirements.
Adler, Matthew D.
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On income and wealth inequality in Turkey
Central Bank Review, 2018 In this paper, we study Turkey's income and wealth distribution using a model-based approach via a modified Aiyagari (1994) model. In doing so, we use recent parameter estimates for Turkey and calibrate our model to match Turkey's income and wealth ...
Orhan Torul, Oğuz Öztunalı
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Food Insecurity and Conflict Events in Africa [PDF]
, 2018 The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between food insecurity and conflict events short of war in Africa, taking account of a host of mediating factors, including the degree of inequality, the level of development, democratic quality ...
Badiuzzaman, M. +2 more
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Measuring internal inequality in capsule networks for supervised anomaly detection
Scientific Reports, 2022 In this paper we explore the use of income inequality metrics such as Gini or Palma coefficients as a tool to identify anomalies via capsule networks.
Bogdan Kirillov, Maxim Panov
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A new way to measure the world's protected area coverage. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Protected areas are effective at stopping biodiversity loss, but their placement is constrained by the needs of people. Consequently protected areas are often biased toward areas that are unattractive for other human uses.
Lissa M Barr +5 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright +8 more
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Dynamics in the Fitness-Income plane: Brazilian states vs World countries [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper we introduce a novel algorithm, called Exogenous Fitness, to calculate the Fitness of subnational entities and we apply it to the states of Brazil.
Andrade, José S. +4 more
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