When examining the relationship between mortality and income indicators, we expected to observe a positive linear relationship between mortality and the explored indicators – unemployment rate, poverty, Gini coefficient, social benefits, and income quintile ratio.
However, at-risk-of-poverty status, Gini coefficient and social benefits positively influenced mortality rate.
From the perspective of the indicators examined in this study, mortality rate can be described by unemployment rate, household disposable income, share of at-risk-of-poverty population, Gini coefficient, income quintile ratio, and social benefits.
"Have them sit down and ask them, 'If we do this $1.5 trillion bill, how will it impact child poverty or the GINI coefficient [a measure of economic inequality]?'" she said.
The rank order correlation coefficient of consumption poverty (official estimates) and the estimated multidimensional poverty in India was 0.62.
In a meta-analysis of 34 international aggregate data studies (primarily from developed countries), Hsieh and Pugh found that of the 41 correlation coefficients for poverty and various types of violent crime, 32 (or 78%) were of at least moderate strength (>0.25) [9].
Finally, to assess the welfare effects from our experiments, we compute the Gini coefficient and several poverty measures.
For poverty incidence and the Gini coefficient, it was possible to see a different performance in the same scenario: in Full Steam Ahead, for example, where economic growth played a major role, a small part of the population was expected to benefit from the process, while the rest would have very few resources to rely on.
However, the government has stressed that income disparity does not equate to worsening of the poverty situation, and that the Gini coefficient is not strictly comparable between regions.
