Showing 1 - 10 of 464
We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502647
fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874411
In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388311
Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … eligibility. We apply recent advances in multidimensional measurement analysis to develop a straightforward method for summarizing … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125890
reducing the poverty rate by almost one percentage point more, a 75 percent increase over the survey estimate. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543927
Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further … highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad overview of the pros and cons of poverty … review two common uses of poverty imputation methods that aim at tracking poverty over time and estimating poverty dynamics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603834
analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often making it seem that … data rather than survey data alone, the poverty reducing effect of all programs together is nearly doubled while the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716177
We examine economic mobility in India while rigorously accounting for measurement error. Such an analysis is imperative … groups, and rural households are in a more disadvantageous position in terms of escaping poverty or transitioning into … poverty compared to Hindus, upper caste groups, and urban households. These findings suggest inequality in India is likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057331
Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics for Russia, using the … composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. We decompose poverty into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012184084
Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of … proposed method offers poverty estimates based on administrative data that are mostly statistically insignificantly different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596342