This paper aims to analyze Inequality Using J-Bonet Index Distribution based on regions dimension and its determinant factors. study uses a quantitative research approach with Quantile Regression (QR) analysis. The results showed that overall, there was no noticeable difference in income inequality among regions. However, according the status of regions, expansion area eastern Indonesia is twic...

government, now, more than the fist half of 20th century, have accepted. reducing poverty as an inevitably and necessary object. implementing poverty reduction programs would not he as succesful as, without paying enought attention to the dimentions of poverty. in this way estimating poverty line and percent ofpoor people are of the most favorable measures. also we would he enable to make more ...

Poverty in Sri Lanka is marked by spatial heterogeneity. The poverty headcount ratio in Colombo District in 2002 (6 percent) was less than a sixth of the ratios in Badulla and Monaragala Districts (37 percent). The regional disparities in the pace of poverty reduction is even more striking. The poverty headcount ratio in Colombo District declined by 10 percentage points between 1990–91 and 2002...

This paper explores the effects of general and agricultural trade openness on economic freedom and alongside with the quality of institutions, on income and poverty. Recent cross-country data for over 200 nations in global regions were used to estimate equations for income, poverty and economic freedom. Economic freedom appears to have positive impacts on income levels, which together with good...

Empirical evidence suggests that macroeconomic growth in India is not correlated with any substantial reductions in the prevalence of child undernutrition over time. This study investigates the two commonly hypothesized pathways through which macroeconomic growth is expected to reduce child undernutrition: (1) an increase in public developmental expenditure and (2) a reduction in aggregate inco...

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Following Amartya Sen’s pioneering ideas on poverty and inequality measurement, the development economics literature proposes diverse classes of measures as well orderings. Yet in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), headcount ratio is primary statistic for measuring monetary multidimensional poverty. Rigorously analysing trends India between 2005/6 2015/16, we illustrate how not able to obser...