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Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information : Theory and Evidence from Indonesia
Alatas, Vivi - 2012
We use unique data from 600 Indonesian communities on what individuals know about the poverty status of others to study how network structure influences information aggregation. We develop a model of semi-Bayesian learning on networks, which we structurally estimate using within-village data....
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Targeting the Poor : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
Alatas, Vivi - 2010
In developing countries, identifying the poor for redistribution or social insurance is challenging because the government lacks information about people's incomes. This paper reports the results of a field experiment conducted in 640 Indonesian villages that investigated two main approaches to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462673
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Ordeal Mechanisms In Targeting : Theory And Evidence From A Field Experiment In Indonesia
Alatas, Vivi - 2013
issues empirically by conducting a 400-village field experiment within Indonesia's Conditional Cash Transfer program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459503
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Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia
Alatas, Vivi - 2013
Indonesia, using both a high-stakes field experiment that varied the extent of elite influence and non-experimental data on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459863
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The Distributional Impacts of Indonesia's Financial Crisis on Household Welfare : A "Rapid Response" Methodology
Friedman, Jed - 2001
Analyzing the distributional impacts of economic crises is important and, unfortunately, an ever more pressing need. If policymakers are to intervene to help those most adversely impacted, then policymakers need to identify those who have been most harmed and the magnitude of that harm....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470154
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Fleshing Out the Olive? On Income Polarization in China
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In a rare example of an explicit national goal for income distribution besides reducing poverty, China's leadership has recently committed to expanding the middle-income share--moving to a less polarized "olive-shaped" distribution. Recognizing the potential trade-offs, the paper asks whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660061
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Income Distribution, International Integration, and Sustained Poverty Reduction
Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2020
What is the pathway to development in a world with less international integration? We answer this question within a model that emphasizes the role of demand-side constraints on national development, which we identify with sustained poverty reduction. In this framework, development is linked to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481868
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Generating Equality and Eliminating Poverty, The Swedish Way
Bjorklund, Anders - 1994
Sweden has a remarkable record in reducing inequality and virtually eliminating poverty. This paper shows that: 1) Sweden achieved its egalitarian income distribution and eliminated poverty largely because of its system of earnings and income determination, not because of the homogeneity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473954
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Recovery and Sustainability in East Asia
Park, Yung Chul - 2001
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic adjustment from the crisis in East Asia in a broad international prospective. The … currency crisis episodes. However, the degree of initial contraction and following recovery has been far greater in East Asia … than what the cross-country evidence predicts. This paper argues that the sharper adjustment pattern in East Asia is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470347
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Measuring Poverty in a Growing World (or Measuring Growth in a Poor World)
Deaton, Angus - 2003
The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than ever before, controversies are not resolved. A major problem is that consumption measured from household surveys, which is used to measure poverty, grows less rapidly than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468876