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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 …

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Evolution of inequality in Nigeria : a tale of falling inequality, rising poverty and regional heterogeneity

Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; 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 …

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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables

Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2021

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

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Vulnerability to poverty : Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis

Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John S.; … - 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...

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Rethinking the inequality-growth nexus : short-term gains and long-term challenges

Duong, Khanh; Nguyen Phuc Van - 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 …

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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 - 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...

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Estimating poverty for refugee populations : can cross-survey imputation methods substitute for data scarcity?

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Verme, Paolo - 2019

The increasing growth of forced displacement worldwide has led to the stronger interest of various stakeholders in measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper...

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Data gaps, data incomparability, and data imputation : a review of poverty measurement methods for data-scarce environments

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Jolliffe, Dean; Carletto, Calogero - 2018

We offer a review of methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates of poverty in contexts where household consumption data are unavailable or missing. These contexts range from completely missing and partially missing consumption data in cross sectional household surveys, to...

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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/10012131578

Data scarcity and poverty measurement

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2021

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 abroad overview of the pros and cons of poverty imputation indata-scarce environments, update recent review...

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