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The evolution of inequality in Latin America in the 21st century: What are the patterns, drivers and causes?
Bogliacino, Francesco; Rojas Lozano, Daniel - 2017
In this article, we show the evolution of inequality for the largest economies of the Latin American region in the 21st … century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. We analyse the drivers of the changes in inequality and possible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631271
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Evolution of Inequality in Nigeria: A Tale of Falling Inequality, Rising Poverty and Regional Heterogeneity
Odozi, John; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2022
Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was estimated in the past literature are the motivation for our … research. First we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then examine how changes in inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411419
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Vulnerability to Poverty: Tajikistan during and after the Global Financial Crisis
Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John; … - 2017
We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607436
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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables
Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gaston - 2021
addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649290
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Rethinking the Inequality-Growth Nexus: Short-Term Gains and Long-Term Challenges
Duong, Khanh - 2023
This study reexamines the relationship between economic growth and inequality, challenging the conventional view that … regards inequality solely as an impediment to development. While recognizing the essential role of economic growth in … growth. We explore how inequality interplays with pressing global challenges like climate change and pandemics, areas that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438991
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To Impute or Not to Impute? A Review of Alternative Poverty Estimation Methods in the Context of Unavailable Consumption Data
Dang, Hai-Anh H. - 2018
There is an increasingly stronger demand for more frequent and accurate poverty estimates, despite the oftentimes unavailable household consumption data. We offer a review of alternative imputation methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates in such contexts. These range from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011818042
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Welfare Dynamics in India over a Quarter Century: Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility during 1987-2012
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter F. - 2020
We analyze the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning 1987/88–2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of the consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210232
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Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations: A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad
Beltramo, Theresa; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Sarr, Ibrahima; … - 2020
Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad, by combining United Nations High Commissioner for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213181
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Measuring Poverty Dynamics with Synthetic Panels Based on Repeated Cross-Sections
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter F. - 2022
Panel data are rarely available for developing countries. Departing from traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with as few as two survey rounds and produces point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470719
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Poverty Imputation in Contexts without Consumption Data: A Revisit with Further Refinements
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Kilic, Talip; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2023
Household consumption data are often unavailable, not fully collected, or incomparable over time in poorer countries. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013483491