Search Results - subject:"CHRONIC POVERTY"

Defining and Measuring (Extreme) Poverty

Makdissi, Paul; Wodon, Quentin - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2001

An axiomatic approach is used to propose a measure of extreme poverty which is not only multidimensional in nature, but also recognizes the fact that there are interaction effects between different deprivations, and that the length of time during which deprivations are felt may also have a...

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Poverty - major obstacle for sustainable development

Popescu, Angela - Facultatea de Finante şi Banci, Universitatea Spiru Haret - 2009

Poverty affects every culture and society dimensions. Poverty involves limiting access to services on education, health, decision making and lack of community facilities such as water, sanitation, roads, transport and communications. The key to sustainable development to poverty eradication is...

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Disparidad territorial de la pobreza dinámica en España /Territorial Disparity of the Dynamic Poverty in Spain

GARCÍA-LUQUE, OLGA; LAFUENTE LECHUGA, MATILDE; FAURA … - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 27 (2009) Agosto, pp. 417-436

Con la información longitudinal disponible en la Encuesta de Condiciones de Vida 2004-2006, este trabajo realiza una primera aproximación al análisis territorial de la pobreza en nuestro país, desde una perspectiva dinámica. Comparamos la situación relativa de las Comunidades Autónomas en...

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The importance of consecutive spells of poverty: a longitudinal poverty index

Mendola, Daria; Busetta, Annalisa; Milito, Anna Maria - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2009

Traditional measures of poverty persistence, such as 'poverty rate' (i.e., the number of years spent in poverty upon the total number of observations) or the 'persistent-risk-of-poverty rate', do not devote enough attention to the sequence of poverty spells. In particular, they are insufficient...

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On the Definition and Measurement of Chronic Poverty

Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

As an alternative to the conventional methods for measuring chronic poverty, this paper proposes an interpersonal … comparable measure of permanent income as a basis for defining and measuring chronic poverty. This approach accounts for the fact … proposed method proves useful for evaluating the theoretical basis of the standard methods for measuring chronic poverty. …

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Robust Multiperiod Poverty Comparisons

Gräb, Johannes; Grimm, Michael - DIAL - 2007

We propose a new methodology for comparing poverty over multiple periods across time and space that does not arbitrarily aggregate income over various years or rely on arbitrarily specified poverty lines or poverty indices. Following Duclos et al. (2006a), we use the multivariate stochastic...

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The measurement of transient poverty: Theory and application to Pakistan

Kurosaki, Takashi - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 4 (2006) 3, pp. 325-345

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Chronic and Transient Poverty: Measurement and Estimation, with Evidence from China

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim; Giles, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate...

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On the Definition and Measurement of Chronic Poverty

Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2006

As an alternative to the conventional methods for measuring chronic poverty, this paper proposes to use an … interpersonal comparable measure of permanent income as a basis for defining and measuring chronic poverty. This approach accounts … measuring chronic poverty. …

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Chronic Poverty in Rural India: issues and findings from panel data

Bhide, Shashanka; Mehta, Aasha Kapur - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 5 (2004) 2, pp. 195-209

literature on poverty in South Asia. This paper first reviews the limited panel data-based literature on chronic poverty in the …

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