scholarly journals Bottom Incomes and the Measurement of Poverty and Inequality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Hlasny ◽  
Lidia Ceriani ◽  
Paolo Verme
Keyword(s):  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
Measurement Of Poverty

scholarly journals Free Trade, Poverty, and Inequality

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Hassoun
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade ◽  
Experimental Testing ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
Measurement Of Poverty

AbstractAnyone familiar with The Economist knows the mantra: Free trade will ameliorate poverty by increasing growth and reducing inequality. This paper suggests that problems underlying measurement of poverty, inequality, and free trade provide reason to worry about this argument. Furthermore, the paper suggests that better evidence is necessary to establish that free trade is causing inequality and poverty to fall. Experimental studies usually provide the best evidence of causation. So, the paper concludes with a call for further research into the prospects for ethically acceptable experimental testing of free trade's impact on poverty and inequality. Although the paper is unabashedly methodological, its conclusions bear on many ethical debates. Ethicists sometimes argue, for instance, that there is reason to encourage free trade because they believe free trade is decreasing poverty and inequality. Clarifying the empirical facts may not settle ethical debates but it may inform them.

Blame Welfare, Ignore Poverty and Inequality

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel F. Handler ◽  
Yeheskel Hasenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Poverty And Inequality

Migration vs. development? The case of poverty and inequality in Mexico

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agustín Escobar Latapi
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Opportunity Cost ◽  
Inequality Index ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
And Migration

Although the migration – development nexus is widely recognized as a complex one, it is generally thought that there is a relationship between poverty and emigration, and that remittances lessen inequality. On the basis of Latin American and Mexican data, this chapter intends to show that for Mexico, the exchange of migrants for remittances is among the lowest in Latin America, that extreme poor Mexicans don't migrate although the moderately poor do, that remittances have a small, non-significant impact on the most widely used inequality index of all households and a very large one on the inequality index of remittance-receiving households, and finally that, to Mexican households, the opportunity cost of international migration is higher than remittance income. In summary, there is a relationship between poverty and migration (and vice versa), but this relationship is far from linear, and in some respects may be a perverse one for Mexico and for Mexican households.

Poverty and Inequality Changes in Turkey (2003-2006)

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meltem A. Aran ◽  
Sırma Demir ◽  
Özlem Sarıca ◽  
Hakan Yazici
Keyword(s):  
Poverty And Inequality
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