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Analyzing urban poverty : a summary of methods and approaches

Baker, Judy - 2004

"In recent years an extensive body of literature has emerged on the definition, measurement, and analysis of poverty …. Much of this literature focuses on analyzing poverty at the national level, or spatial disaggregation by general categories … tackle the problems of urban poverty, this level of aggregation is not sufficient for answering specific questions such as …

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Integrated urban upgrading for the poor : the experience of Ribeira Azul, Brazil

Baker, Judy L. - 2006

"This study looks at the experience of integrated urban upgrading in a low-income neighborhood of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Infrastructure and social investments have been made in the community through a government program, with community participation playing a major role in the design and...

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Productivity matters for trade policy : theory and evidence

Karacaovali, Baybars - 2006

) estimates obtained at the firm level for Colombia between 1983 and 1998, and finds that more productive sectors receive more …

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Firm entry and exit, labor demand, and trade reform : evidence from Chile and Colombia

Fajnzylber, Pablo - 2001

Firms entering and exiting a market contribute almost as much to employment changes as firms continuing in a market. As much effort should be made to understanding sensitivity to wage changes in entering and exiting firms as to understanding wage elasticities in continuing firms

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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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Estimating individual vulnerability to poverty with pseudo-panel data

Bourguignon, François - 2004

larger effort in the vice presidency to improve measurement of vulnerability to poverty"--World Bank web site … earning dynamics and related issues such as the propensity of earners to fall into poverty or vulnerability to poverty because … other measures of interest, such as an individual's vulnerability to poverty. The results show that model parameters …

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