The publication of this book is in large part due to the role of Canada's Inter national
Development Research Center (IDRC) in encouraging policy-relevant research in the fields …

Widely used summary measures of inequality or the idea of the “disappearing middle class”
are potentially misleading. Divergences between evidence cited and conclusions drawn …

This paper decomposes the redistributive effect of the personal income taxes (PITs) of
twelve OECD countries into four components:(i) an average rate effect,(ii) a departure-from …

Devolution of tasks to local levels of government has recently become a popular agenda
item within certain political factions in the US. While one expects the local policymaker to …

This paper investigates the possibility of increasing the ordering power of additively
separable poverty measures beyond the condition of second degree stochastic dominance …

The paper develops simple statistical test procedures for generalized decomposable poverty
measures. It is shown that the estimates of the decomposable poverty indices, including the …

The relative effectiveness of the US Food Stamp Program in reducing the incidence and
depth of poverty is compared at a number of poverty lines across time. The analysis is based …

This paper discusses the dominance method for analyzing levels of and changes in income
distributions, and applies the technique to evaluate the income distributions of the United …

The chapter is organized as follows. The next section summarizes the appeal of the
dominance method and explains Lorenz dominance in a intuitive fashion. Section 2 also …

Understanding trends in environmental quality is important for individuals and policymakers.
Typically, trends in environmental quality are determined solely through comparisons of …