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The global consumption and income project (GCIP): An overview

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2016

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The current benchmark version of the dataset...

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Identifying the Income-Poor: Some Controversies in India and Elsewhere

Subramanian, Sreenivasan - 2010

Conventional approaches to the measurement of income-poverty require the ability to identify the poor by reference to a specified poverty line. On the face of it, it may appear to be unproblematic to specify such a poverty line. There are, however, analytical and conceptual difficulties entailed...

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Determinants of Empowerment in a Capability Based Poverty Approach: Evidence from The Gambia

Trommlerová, Sofia Karina; Klasen, Stephan; Lessmann, … - 2013

Although empowerment is seen as intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is very little research on the empirical drivers of empowerment. Using custom-made household-level information and using advanced econometric techniques that also correct for endogeneity,...

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Who got what, then and now? A fifty year overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project

Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2015

Using newly comprehensive data and tools from the Global Consumption and Income Project or CGIP, covering most of the world and five decades, we present a portrait of the changing global distribution of consumption and income and discuss its implications for our understanding of inequality,...

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Rural Livelihoods, Poverty, and the Millennium Development Goals: Evidence from Ethiopian Survey Data

Bluffstone, Randall; Yesuf, Mahmud; Bushie, Bilisuma; … - 2008

This paper provides an in-depth look at some of the key development issues facing households in Ethiopia, in the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Using household survey data from 2000, 2002, and 2005, we found that Ethiopia is making progress toward some vital MDG goals, but...

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What about the Women? Female Headship, Poverty and Vulnerability in Thailand and Vietnam

Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Povel, Felix - 2011

This paper investigates whether heterogeneous subgroups of female-headed households are worse off than traditional households headed by men. We analyze the determinants of consumption, shock exposure and vulnerability to poverty. Using unique panel data of over 4000 rural households from...

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Accuracy and poverty impacts of proxy means-tested transfers: An empirical assessment for Bolivia

Klasen, Stephan; Lange, Simon - 2015

In the absence of reliable and exhaustive income data, Proxy Means Tests (PMTs) are frequently employed as a cost-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether proxies accurately identify the income poor. Based...

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How narrowly should anti-poverty programs be targeted? Simulation evidence from Bolivia and Indonesia

Klasen, Stephan; Lange, Simon - 2016

A key question in the design of anti-poverty programs is to what extent they should be targeted. Empirical evaluations of targeted transfer schemes and simulation exercises often point to further gains that can be had from targeted transfers vis-à-vis universal transfers or from more narrow...

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Multidimensional poverty and inequality

Aaberge, Rolf; Brandolini, Andrea - 2014

This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … outlines three aspects preliminary to any multidimensional study: the selection of the relevant dimensions; the indicators used … offering some guidance on how to use multidimensional methods in empirical and policy-oriented applications. …

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Life-Satisfaction in Urban Ethiopia: The Role of Relative Poverty and Unobserved Heterogeneity

Alem, Yonas - 2014

Unlike most studies of subjective well-being in developing countries, we use a fixed effects regression on three rounds of rich panel data to investigate the impact of relative standing on life satisfaction of respondents in urban Ethiopia. We find a consistently large negative impactof relative...

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