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Welfare economics
Blog
Inequality in Focus at UNU-WIDER

27 August 2014 Jukka Pirttilä and Tony Addison The last few months have seen major research activity in the area of inequality at UNU-WIDER. An update of the World Income Inequality Database (WIID) was first published in June...

Equality and inequality Methodology (Poverty) Quantitative research methodology
Journal Article
Poverty, Vulnerability, and Reference-Dependent Utility

Part of Journal Special Issue Poverty, Development, and Behavioral Economics

Poverty Risk management Uncertainty
Journal Article
Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect Theory

Part of Journal Special Issue Poverty, Development, and Behavioral Economics

Equality and inequality Poverty Poverty measurement
Working Paper
Targeting Social Transfer Programmes: Comparing Design and Implementation Errors Across Alternative Mechanisms

Identifying the poorest for selection into social transfer programmes is a major challenge facing programme implementers...

Government policy (Poor) Poverty measurement Methodology (Poverty)
Book Chapter
Uruguay's Income Inequality and Political Regimes over 1981-2010

From the book: Falling Inequality in Latin America

Education Income distribution Decision making (Public administration)
Book Chapter
On the Distributional Implications of Social Protection Reforms in Latin America

From the book: Falling Inequality in Latin America

Economic policy Equality and inequality Social security
Working Paper
Climate Variability and Household Welfare in Northern Ghana

Climate variability poses a major risk to agricultural incomes in Africa. In Ghana, most of the country’s poor people live in the north and households find it difficult to hold back their productive assets during the lean season...

Agriculture Welfare economics Climate change
Working Paper
Poverty, Vulnerability, and Reference Dependent Utility

In this paper we argue that the recent evidence on individuals’ decision making is of high relevance for the measurement of poverty when switching from a static and certain to a dynamic and uncertain framework...

Microeconomics Poverty measurement Uncertainty
Blog
From the Editor's Desk (June 2013)

29 June 2013 Tony Addison The June-July summer issue of Angle comes to you amid the 19 hours daylight of the Finnish mid-summer...

Econometric models (Economic development) Agriculture Children
Working Paper
The Impacts of the Food, fuel and Financial Crises on Households in Nigeria: a Retrospective Approach for Research Enquiry

This paper examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on the livelihoods of low-income households Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household welfare...

Children Econometric models (Economic development) Poverty
Working Paper
Advancing Small Area Estimation

The poverty mapping methodology for estimating welfare rankings from small areas has proven to be useful in guiding allocation of government funds, regional planning, and general policy formulation...

Econometric models (Economic development) Public expenditures Methodology (Poverty)
Working Paper
Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect Theory

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have been found to be important welfare determinants in behavioural economics...

Equality and inequality Poverty Welfare economics
Blog
From the Editor's Desk (August 2012)

Tony Addison With this issue, Angle returns refreshed from its Nordic summer break. The sun continues to shine on the Baltic, although it is getting noticeably chillier as we now head into the autumn...

Environment Children Climate change
Blog
Measuring Poverty Over Time

Luc Christiaensen and Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen If a person suddenly becomes poor, for example, due to an unexpected death or illness in the family, they will have a rather different experience and understanding of poverty than someone who has been i...

Children Consumption Poverty measurement
Blog
Learning How to Promote Social Protection from Cambodia’s Garment Workers
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Alisa DiCaprio Innovations in social protection systems design have moved forward quickly on the supply-side over the past decade...

Employee rights Human rights Labour law
Journal Article
An ASEAN-EU FTA, Regional Production Sharing, and Regional Cohesion, Focus on Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar

Part of Journal Special Issue South-South and North-South Trade Agreements

Economic integration Regional economics Welfare economics
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