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Searching for the economic gradient in self-assessed health

Lokshin, Michael - 2005

"Can self-assessed health be relied on to identify the true socioeconomic gradients in health status? The self …-assessed health of Russian adults in 2002 shows remarkably little gradient with respect to economic welfare. The authors document this … finding and assess its robustness to the assumptions routinely made in measuring health and welfare. They find that the …

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The developing world's bulging (but vulnerable) "middle class"

Ravallion, Martin - 2009

"The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line of developing countries, but are still poor by US standards. The "Western middle class" is defined as those who are not poor by US standards. Although barely 80 million people...

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Weakly relative poverty

Ravallion, Martin - 2009

"Prevailing measures of relative poverty put an implausibly high weight on relative deprivation, such that measured poverty does not fall when all incomes grow at the same rate. This stems from the (implicit) assumption in past measures that very poor people incur a negligible cost of social...

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The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty

Chen, Shaohua - 2008

"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than we thought. Yet the data also provide robust...

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Linking public investment programs and SPAHD macro models : methodology and application to aid requirements

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2006

establishing constant-price projections of investment outlays (disaggregated into infrastructure, education, and health), spending …

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Inequality is bad for the poor

Ravallion, Martin - 2005

"It has been argued that inequality should be of little concern in poor countries on the grounds that (1) absolute poverty in terms of consumption (or income) is the overriding issue in poor countries, and (2) the only thing that really matters to reducing absolute income poverty is the rate of...

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On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world

Ravallion, Martin - 2005

"Recent literature and new data help determine plausible bounds to some key demographic differences between the poor and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the...

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Targeted transfers in poor countries : revisiting the tradeoffs and policy options

Ravallion, Martin - 2003

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Does globalization hurt the poor?

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2002

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Macroeconomic adjustment and the poor : analytical issues and cross-country evidence

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2002

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