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Fair inheritance taxation
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Updated estimates of the Prosperity Gap
In 2019, around 80% of the world lived on less than $25 per day, which is around the value of the typical poverty line of high-income countries. $25 per day is also very close to the income or consumption of a typical person living in a country that moves from middle income to high income status. The Prosperity Gap is a new measure that helps us track how far the world, or any society, is from the $25 per day income threshold.
The prosperity gap: A proposed new indicator to monitor shared prosperity
Since 2013, the World Bank has enshrined promoting shared prosperity as one of its twin goals, alongside the elimination of extreme poverty. The shared prosperity goal “…seeks to increase sensitivity to distributional issues, shifting the common understanding of development progress away from average per capita income and emphasizing that good growth should benefit the least well-off in society.” (World Bank (2015), p.10).
Can we have a welfare index that is easy to understand but also distribution sensitive?
Harold W. Watts, in “An Economic Definition of Poverty” (1969). Amartya Sen in “Sen & Foster” (1973) Giants in the field of measuring welfare, poverty, and inequality have been criticizing the most used measures for more than half a century but here we are, in 2023, still using average household income (or per capita GDP) and the poverty headcount to track progress in human wellbeing around the world.
Death and destitution: Taking poverty seriously in assessing the global welfare burden of the pandemic
Since its outbreak at the end of 2019, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought massive losses in well-being all over the world, mainly through its health and economic consequences. But which of these two types of consequences constitutes the largest welfare loss? Does the answer to this question vary systematically across countries? How large were the aggregate welfare losses, and how were they distributed across countries?
Exploring a new measure of human development: the poverty-adjusted life-expectancy index (PALE)
There is a long-standing tradition looking for an indicator able to track human well-being in a given year. For this purpose, GDP per capita has been heavily criticized, notably on two accounts. First, GDP is insensitive to the distribution of consumption across the population. This concern led to the design and adoption of monetary poverty measures. Second, key dimensions of human well-being, such as health, are extremely hard to meaningfully translate into monetary values.
"Too Young to Die": Deprivation Measures Combining Poverty and Premature Mortality
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Death and Destitution: The Global Distribution of Welfare Losses from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Accepted on 13 Apr 2021 Submitted on 15 Feb 2021 1. Introduction Since its onset in December 2019, the Covid-19 pandemic has spread death and disease across the whole world. Around the time of its “first anniversary”, on 15 December 2020, 1.64 million people were counted as having lost their lives to the virus globally and,1 because of the likelihood of under-reporting, that was almost certainly an undercount.
Lives or livelihoods? Global estimates of the mortality and poverty costs of COVID-19
Over the last six months, the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has generated massive losses in well-being around the world – through greater mortality, widespread suffering, higher unemployment and rising poverty. Attempts to quantify these welfare costs have so far struggled with the fact that mortality losses and economic losses are typically expressed in different units: the former in numbers of deaths and the latter in monetary units.
Supply-side health policy: The impact of scope-of-practice laws on mortality
Over a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and nearly a decade after the first round of ACA Medicaid expansion, the United States continues to struggle with access to healthcare. Through the ACA and other acts like the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, the federal government has directed billions of dollars to improve access to care across the country (Antos and Capretta, 2020).
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