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Poverty in Britain in 1904 : an early social survey rediscovered

Gazeley, Ian (contributor); Newell, Andrew (contributor) - 2007

Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turn of the 20th century. This paper introduces a newly-discovered household budget data set for the early 1900s. These data are more representative of urban working households in Britain in the period...

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Growing into relative income poverty : urban China 1988 to 2013

Gustafsson, Björn; Ding, Sai - 2019

This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and 2013 urban residents in China changed their assessment of how much money that is necessary. Data from the China Household Income Project indicate that while, assessed against...

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China's urban poor : comparing twice poverty between residents and migrants in 2013 and 2018

Gustafsson, Björn; Ding, Sai - 2023

Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural hukou holders living in urban China and urban hukou holders. People living in households with an income below a fixed percent of the median per-capita income and wealth below the...

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Conflict, food price shocks, and food insecurity : the experience of Afghan households

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - 2012

Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...

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Income inequality in Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador : different reasons

Aristizábal-Ramirez, Maria; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; … - 2015

This paper analyzes the individual-level determinants of wage inequality for Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador from 2001 … regressions and decompositions of standard Gini indices. Although popular opinion and standard Gini indices suggest Colombia to …'s or Ecuador's. In 2010, educational achievement explains over 10.9 percent of the Gini score in Colombia, 6.3 percent in …

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Using cross-survey imputation to estimate poverty for Venezuelan refugees in Colombia

Sarr, Ibrahima; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Guzman Gutierrez, … - 2024

performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Colombia …, combining household income surveys collected by the Government of Colombia and administrative data collected by the United …

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