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A human development index by internal migrational status
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2009
Migration continues to be a very important income diversification strategy, especially for poor populations in developing countries. However, while there has been much analysis on the economic consequences of migration for migrants and the receiving regions, whether internal migration improves...
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Measuring poverty
Klasen, Stephan (ed.) - 2018
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A human development index at the household level
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2011
One of the most serious weaknesses of the human development index (HDI) is does not take into account the distribution of human development within a country. All previous attempts to capture inequality in the HDI have also used aggregate information and there exists no HDI at the household...
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Inequality in human development : an empirical assessment of thirty-two countries
Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2009
One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. In this paper, we apply a simple approach to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows comparison...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010254239
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Inequality in human development : an empirical assessment of thirty-two countries
Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2008
One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. We use a simple approach, which allows to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows to compare the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003876165
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Economic inequality : causes, consequences, and measurement issues : an empirical contribution
Scholl, Nathalie - 2016
(Un-)gleichheit und Gerechtigkeit waren schon immer Kernbestandteil eines jeden politischen Konzeptes, welches das Wohl der Menschen in den Mittelpunkt rückte. Die Idee der Gleichheit ist so alt wie die der Demokratie selbst und neben instrumentellen Gründen, aus denen man (Un-)gleichheit...
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Measuring poverty
Klasen, Stephan (ed.) - 2018
Robust is a Poverty Profile', World Bank Economic Review, 8 (1), January, 75-102 -- 12. Martin Ravallion and Binayak Sen …), Quantifying Absolute Poverty in the Developing World', Review of Income and Wealth, 37 (4), December, 345-361. …21. Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion (2001), 'How did the World's Poorest Fare in the 1900s?', Review of Income and …
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Looking at pro-poor growth from an agricultural perspective
Klasen, Stephan; Reimers, Malte - 2016
Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing countries. The diagnostic pro-poor growth toolbox has so far focused on the income dimension as well as key non-income achievements in education and health. This article...
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Gender and multidimensional poverty in Nicaragua : an individual based approach
Espinoza-Delgado, José; Klasen, Stephan - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 110 (2018), pp. 466-491
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Poverty, social mobility, and the middle class : the case of South Africa
Schotte, Simone - 2018
The wave of upbeat stories on the developing world's emerging middle class has reinvigorated a debate on how social …
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