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New Approaches to MeasurementConference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 4.3
Index numbers (Economics) Inequality Poverty measurementJournal Article
When do relative prices matter for measuring income inequality?: The case of food prices in MozambiqueChanges in relative prices of commodities consumed in different shares across income groups can be expected to alter real income differentials between these groups...
Equality and inequality Income Index numbers (Economics)Working Paper
When do Relative Prices Matter for Measuring Income Inequality?: The Case of Food Prices in MozambiqueChanges in relative prices of commodities consumed in different shares across income groups can be expected to alter real income differentials between these groups...
Equality and inequality Income distribution Index numbers (Economics)Blog
From the Editor’s Desk (January 2015)
We are now into 2015, and the year is already gathering speed. 2015 is of course the 70th anniversary of the United Nations, and a major year in global development with the conclusion of the MDG process, and the start of a new chapter with the SDGs...
Agricultural industries Balance of payments ChildrenWorking Paper
New patterns of structural change and effects on inclusive development: A case study of South Africa and BrazilThis study explores the question of structural change and inclusive development in South Africa and Brazil...
Economic growth Structural adjustment (Economic policy) HouseholdsWorking Paper
Monetary Inequality Among Households in Togo: An Illustration Based on the Decomposition of the Gini Coefficient Using the Shapley Value ApproachThis paper aims at measuring and analysing for the first time inequality in the distribution of expenditures among households in Togo according to the characteristics of household heads...
Equality and inequality Income distribution Index numbers (Economics)Working Paper
Indices of Social Development and their Application to AfricaThis paper, using a new set of social development indices, explores the measurement of social development across Africa, and how this relates to broader development patterns and measurement...
Economic development Economic growth Equality and inequalityWorking Paper
When do Relative Prices Matter for Measuring Income Inequality?: The Case of Food Prices in MozambiqueChanges in the relative prices of commodities consumed in different shares across income groups are known to influence real measures of inequality...
Equality and inequality Income Index numbers (Economics)Journal Article
Developing and Evaluating Governance Indexes: 10 QuestionsRecent years have seen a proliferation of composite indicators or indexes of governance and their use in research and policy-making. This article proposes a framework of 10 questions to guide both the development and evaluation of such indexes...
Index numbers (Economics) Public administration Qualitative research methodologyWorking Paper
Evaluating Governance Indexes: Critical and Less Critical QuestionsRecent years have seen a proliferation of ‘composite indicators’ or ‘indexes’ of governance...
Index numbers (Economics) Public administration Qualitative research methodologyBlog
From the Editor's Desk (February 2013) Tony Addison As the snow continues to lie deep across Helsinki, UNU-WIDER is putting the last touches to the ReCom results meeting on ‘aid and the social sectors’, which takes place at Sida in Stockholm on 13 March...
Industrialization Econometric models (Economic development) ChildrenWorking Paper
Measuring Economic InsecurityWe provide an axiomatic treatment of the measurement of economic insecurity, assuming that individual insecurity depends on the current wealth level and its variations experienced in the past...
Methodology (Economics) Index numbers (Economics) WealthJournal Article
Poverty and TimePart of Journal Special Issue Measuring Poverty Over Time
Aggregation operators Equality and inequality Index numbers (Economics)Book Chapter
Designing Composite Entrepreneurship IndicatorsFrom the book: Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
Entrepreneurship Index numbers (Economics)