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Occupational mobility in developing countries : conceptual issues and empirical findings
Heath, Anthony F.; Zhao, Yizhang - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2019
This paper discusses current methods for measuring and analysing occupational mobility, and the way in which methods designed for the analysis of developing countries may need to be modified when applied in other contexts. The paper discusses particular features of some developing societies,...
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Measuring vulnerability : the director's cut
Ligon, Ethan (contributor); Schechter, Laura (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001704339
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Measuring vulnerability to poverty
Kamanou, Gisele (contributor); Morduch, Jonathan (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001679130
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Measuring poverty and wellbeing in developing countries
Arndt, Channing (ed.); Tarp, Finn (ed.) - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2017 - First edition
"This book focuses on two domains: the measurement of absolute consumption poverty and a first-order dominance approach …
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Measuring poverty and wellbeing in developing countries : a study prepared by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Arndt, Channing (ed.); Tarp, Finn (ed.) - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2017
measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes … significantly lower the barriers to entry to the conduct of rigorous poverty measurement and increase the participation of analysts … from developing countries in their own poverty assessments. The book focuses on two domains: the measurement of absolute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594636
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Economic transformation and income distribution in China over three decades
Cai, Meng; Gustafsson, Björn; Knight, John B. - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2023
It is arguable that the most important event in the world economy in recent decades has been the rise of China, from being on a par with Sub Sahara Africa at the start of economic reform to being an economic superpower today. That rise remains under-researched. Moreover, the great structural...
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The rocky road to reform : adjustment, income distribution, and growth in the developing world
Taylor, Lance (ed.) - 1993
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Transition and income distribution : theory, evidence and initial interpretation
Cornia, Giovanni Andrea - 1996
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Conflicting measures of poverty and inadequate saving by the poor : the role of status-driven utility function
Marjit, Sugata - 2012
In the presence of inequality a status-driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income-based and nutrition-based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in the developing countries. The result is independent of...
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