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This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality measurement. A short conceptual background, a step-by-step procedure and a simple numerical example illustrate how to calculate and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz...
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This paper illustrates how Crossing Generalised Lorenz (GL) curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. It starts by illustrating two alternative income distributions...
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This paper illustrates how Lorenz Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. After highlighting some drawbacks of using specific functional forms of the Social...
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different products & services that help in reducing the poverty by coping up with subjective & objective poverty, this study … that Banks are endeavoring more ventures to uplift poverty in Pakistan through micro financing to poor. …
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this question results in a nonlinear optimization problem with nonlinear constraints, and that the method is capable of …
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this question results in a nonlinear optimization problem with nonlinear constraints, and that the method is capable of …
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discourse: from being lauded as the silver bullet to solve the problems of development and poverty reduction, to being derided … it is fine to reject microfinance as the means for either poverty reduction or economic diversification, but then how do …
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Group-based lending programs for the poor have become a focus of attention in the development community over the last several years. To date, there has been no comprehensive investigation of their impact on household behavior that has been sufficiently attentive to issues of endogeneity and...
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A poverty trap is concerned with many possible different self-reinforcing mechanisms which cause misery to persist in a … of the poverty traps that prevent billions of under served, especially women, from escaping atavistic misery …. Interconnected poverty traps range from misuse of natural resources (from blood diamonds to the oil curse) to conflict traps …
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