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Poverty, Inequality, and Social Disparities During China's Economic Reform
Dollar, David - 2012
remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552703
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The Interplay of Regional and Ethnic Inequalities in Malaysian Poverty Dynamics
Ali Ahmad, Zainab; Lanjouw, Peter; Rongen, Gerton; … - 2022
This study employs a synthetic panel approach based on nationally representative micro-level data to track poverty and … income mobility in Malaysia in 2004-16. On aggregate, there were large reductions in chronic poverty and increases in …. Further, the poverty and income dynamics differ notably across geographic dimensions. Such disparities are most striking when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255384
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Who Is Deprived? Who Feels Deprived? Labor Deprivation, Youth and Gender in Morocco
Serajuddin, Umar; Verme, Paolo - 2012
One of the recurrent explanations of the Arab spring is that governments were disconnected from their populations and that public policies were simply not in line with people's sentiments and expectations. This paper provides a methodology to better understand how objective conditions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554520
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Unequal Households or Communities? : Decomposing the Inequality in Nutritional Status in South Asia
Brown, Caitlin; Kandpal, Eeshani; Lee, Jean; Williams, … - 2022
Half of all undernourished women and children in South Asia are not found in the bottom 40 percent of wealth-poor households. This paper quantifies the extent to which this inequality in nutritional status arises within households versus between households. In contrast to previous literature, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254896
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COVID-19 and Economic Inequality : Short-Term Impacts with Long-Term Consequences
Agrawal, Sarthak; Bundervoet, Tom; Cojocaru, Alexandru; … - 2022
poverty and inequality impacts of COVID-19 under the assumption of distribution-neutral changes within countries are likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255356
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Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Development
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Walton, Michael - 2012
Just as equality of opportunity becomes an increasingly prominent concept in normative economics, the authors argue that it is also a relevant concept for positive models of the links between distribution and aggregate efficiency. Persuasive microeconomic evidence suggests that inequalities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553642
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Which Inequality Matters? Growth Evidence Based on Small Area Welfare Estimates in Uganda
Schipper, Youdi; Hoogeveen, Johannes G. - 2012
-often referred to as poverty maps-to estimate a model of rural per capita expenditure growth for Uganda between 1992 and 1999. They …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554061
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Banking Sector Crises and Inequality
Honohan, Patrick - 2012
An apparent temporary narrowing of income inequality has been observed during several recent banking crises. But it would be a mistake to conclude that such crises don't matter for the poor. For one thing, the correlation is not strong, and the opposite pattern has also been present. Besides,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554117
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Inequality Aversion, Health Inequalities, and Health Achievement
Wagstaff, Adam - 2013
The author addresses two issues. First, how can health inequalities be measured so as to take into account policymakers' attitudes toward inequality? The Gini coefficient and the related concentration index embody one particular set of value judgments. Generalizing these indexes allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559526
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Measuring Inequality from Top to Bottom
Diaz-Bazan, Tania - 2015
This paper presents a new methodology to measure inequality that optimally combines household survey information and tax records to construct a complete income distribution. Combining the two data sources is necessary because, on the one hand, household surveys do not accurately represent the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564535