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Economic Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty in Poland During Transition
Paci, Pierella; Sasin, Martin J.; Verbeek, Jos - 2013
The authors attempt to analyze the linkages between macroeconomic policies and economic growth variables, their movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of particular interest because its data sources allow for a relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559898
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Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric V.; Schady, Norbert - 2012
on child labor. This paper focuses on a program of unconditional cash transfers in Ecuador. It argues that the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552494
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On the Unequal Inequality of Poor Communities
Elbers, Chris; Lanjouw, Peter F.; Mistiaen, Johan - 2013
communities in three developing countries: Ecuador, Madagascar, and Mozambique. Communities are found to vary markedly from one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559768
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Poverty Alleviation through Geographic Targeting : How Much Does Disaggregation Help?
Elbers, Chris; Fujii, Tomoki; Lanjouw, Peter - 2013
Using recently completed "poverty maps" for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559850
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Local Inequality and Project Choice : Theory and Evidence from Ecuador
Araujo, M. Caridad; Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2012
This paper provides evidence consistent with elite capture of Social Fund investment projects in Ecuador. Exploiting a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553820
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The Interplay of Regional and Ethnic Inequalities in Malaysian Poverty Dynamics
Ali Ahmad, Zainab; Lanjouw, Peter; Rongen, Gerton; … - 2022
income mobility in Malaysia in 2004-16. On aggregate, there were large reductions in chronic poverty and increases in … comparing affluent urban Peninsular Malaysia with poorer rural East Malaysia. Although there are important differences in … welfare levels between the main ethnic groups in Malaysia, the mobility trends generally point in the same direction. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255384
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Sources of Welfare Disparities Across and Within Regions of Brazil : Evidence from the 2002-03 Household Budget Survey
Skoufias, Emmanuel; Katayama, Roy - 2012
Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household attributes and returns to those attributes. This paper uses Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions at the mean as well as at different quantiles of welfare distributions on regionally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552240
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Assessing the Redistributive Effect of Fiscal Policy
Essama-Nssah, B. - 2012
Who benefits from public spending? Who bears the burden of taxation? How desirable is the distribution of net benefits from the operation of a tax-benefit system? This paper surveys basic concepts, methods, and modeling approaches commonly used to address these issues in the context of fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552377
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Global Poverty and Inequality : A Review of the Evidence
Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Ravallion, Martin - 2012
Drawing on a compilation of data from household surveys representing 130 countries, many over a period of 25 years, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the negative correlations between both poverty and inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552409
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Absolute and Relative Poverty Measurement : A Survey
Decerf, Benoit - 2022
This paper reviews the debate opposing the absolute and relative approaches to monetary poverty measurement. The arguments for combining both approaches into a single "overall” monetary poverty measure are introduced. The most salient proposals of hybrid poverty lines are presented. Then, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254903