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Poverty Measures and Anti-Poverty Policy [PDF]
Recherches économiques de Louvain, 1990 SummaryThis paper analyzes the optimal allocation of a given antipoverty budget consistent with various usual measures of poverty. It is shown that it is generally optimal to give all the budget either to the poorest or to the richest of the poor. It is only with the Sen index of poverty that it is sometimes optimal to combine both types of allocation.
Bourguignon, Francois, Fields, Gary S.
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Measuring Acute Multidimensional Poverty with Missing Indicators: Applications to Alkire-Foster MPI and its Dimensional Break Down in Iran [PDF]
Faslnāmah-i Pizhūhish/Nāmah-i Iqtisādī, 2022 Although the importance of considering the capability approach in calculating poverty has been addressed in various studies, a major obstacle to achieving a measure like Alkire-Foster MPI in many countries is the lack of integrated micro indicators.
Ali Mazyaki +6 more
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Regional Analysis of Poverty in Ecuador: Sensitivity to the Choice of Equivalence Scales
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Economies of scale and equivalent consumption units, which are present in households, must be considered in the measurement of monetary poverty, in order to obtain indicators that approximate the reality of each household.
Diego F. García-Vélez +3 more
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International Comparisons of Poverty in South Asia
Asian Development Review, 2021 This paper explores the methodological differences underlying the construction of the national consumption aggregates that are used to estimate international poverty rates for South Asian countries.
TM Tonmoy Islam +2 more
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A Three-Component Decomposition of the Change in Relative Poverty: An Application to China
Land, 2023 China has eliminated absolute poverty and begun to tackle relative poverty, yet the change in relative poverty in China has been less studied. In this paper, we develop a three-component decomposition of the change in relative poverty and apply it to ...
Zengzeng Fan, Wei Zou
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Measuring lifetime poverty [PDF]
Journal of Economic Theory, 2011 The paper provides an axiomatic framework necessary to investigate the lifetime poverty for an individual as well as for the society, and to identify the appropriate axioms for their measurement. It further suggests that consumption rather than income is a more accurate measurement of the standard of living over time, especially in the context of ...
Michael Hoy, Buhong Zheng
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Regional Differences in Equivalence Scales in Turkey [PDF]
Экономика региона, 2017 Equivalence scales have a crucial role in poverty measurement. For Turkey, there are no available up-todate equivalence scales, representing Turkish data. There were no efforts for calculation of equivalence scales at the regional level. The aim of the
Gianni Betti +3 more
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Dynamic Poverty Analysis in Rural Areas of Iran [PDF]
Pizhūhish va barnāmah/rīzī-i rūstāyī, 2019 Purpose- With increasing governmental revenue and budgets, their responsibility for community development and growth has increased. The first step to policy-making in order to attain the desired welfare levels is identify and measure the related ...
Fateme Garivani +3 more
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AN ALTERNATIVE METHODOLOGY TO MONITOR CHRONIC AND TRANSIENT POVERTY IN INDIA
Journal of Business & Economic Analysis, 2022 The economic growth in India has been impressive in the last few decades, yet it continues to be a home for millions of poor. The poverty measures debate across the developing world has generated more heat than light as there is no consensus on ...
M. BALAJI, U. DASH
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2022 The UN 2030 Agenda sets poverty eradication as the primary goal of sustainable development. An accurate measurement of poverty is a critical input to the quality and efficiency of poverty alleviation in rural areas.
Qianqian Zhou, Nan Chen, Siwei Lin
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