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Inequality in Focus at UNU-WIDER27 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 methodologyJournal Article
Poverty, Vulnerability, and Reference-Dependent UtilityPart of Journal Special Issue Poverty, Development, and Behavioral Economics
Poverty Risk management UncertaintyJournal Article
Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect TheoryPart of Journal Special Issue Poverty, Development, and Behavioral Economics
Equality and inequality Poverty Poverty measurementWorking Paper
Targeting Social Transfer Programmes: Comparing Design and Implementation Errors Across Alternative MechanismsIdentifying 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 1981-2010From 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 AmericaFrom the book: Falling Inequality in Latin America
Economic policy Equality and inequality Social securityWorking Paper
Climate Variability and Household Welfare in Northern GhanaClimate 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 changeWorking Paper
Poverty, Vulnerability, and Reference Dependent UtilityIn 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 UncertaintyBlog
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 ChildrenWorking Paper
The Impacts of the Food, fuel and Financial Crises on Households in Nigeria: a Retrospective Approach for Research EnquiryThis 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) PovertyWorking Paper
Advancing Small Area EstimationThe 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 TheoryThis 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 economicsBlog
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 changeBlog
Measuring Poverty Over TimeLuc 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 measurementBlog
Learning How to Promote Social Protection from Cambodia’s Garment Workers
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