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Rural household income mobility in transitional China: Evidence from China Household Income Project
Yang, Sui - 2015
Based on China Household Income Project rural data, this paper aims to study the changes of rural household income mobility in transitional China. The results show that with the economic reform and development, income mobility between 2007 and 2009 was much stronger than before. Regarding the...
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Income mobility in Ecuador: New evidence from individual income tax returns
Cano, Liliana - 2015
This paper presents new evidence on the study of income mobility in Ecuador over the period 2004 - 11. We utilize longitudinal data of individual income tax returns to measure income mobility both at the top and at the middle of the income distribution, and we find three main empirical results....
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The individual poverty incidence of growth
Lo Bue, Maria C.; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2019
The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after … growth. Measurement tools that endorse this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamics in the … measuring this individual poverty incidence of growth, and show how it relates to existing models. We apply our framework to …
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In praise of snapshots
Kanbur, Ravi - 2019
The conventional justification for moving from income distribution to intergenerational mobility analysis is that the movie encompasses the snapshot and is normatively superior as the basis for assessing policy. Such a perspective underpins many an argument for shifting the focus from income...
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Social and political capital in rural Viet Nam
Markussen, Thomas - 2015
This paper exploits five waves of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) to investigate issues of social and political capital in rural Viet Nam. I analyse membership of the Communist Party, 'mass organizations' (Farmers' Union, Women's Union, etc.) and other voluntary...
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Mobile internet and income improvement: Evidence from Viet Nam
2023
New developments of existing technologies over time have led to emergent patterns of technology adoption and, accordingly, changing impacts on economy and society. Focusing on the arrival of mobile internet in the early 2010s in developing countries, this paperidentifiessignificant positive...
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The welfare impact of Viet Nam's national target programme "building a new countryside": A quasi-experimental evaluation
Verwimp, Philip; Zhang, Sisi - 2018
We evaluate the impact on household income of Viet Nam's national target programme to build a new countryside for the period from 2010 to 2015. The purpose of the programme is to modernize rural Viet Nam. Given the universal implementation of the programme, we use a quasi-experimental approach...
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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Ecuador country study
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary; Jaume, David; Viollaz, … - 2015
was labour earnings for some employment categories. With the onset of the crisis of 2008, the poverty rate stopped falling …
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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Uruguay country study
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary; Jaume, David; Viollaz, … - 2015
2012 at a better level than at the beginning of the decade, with the exceptions of labour earnings and some poverty …
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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Venezuela country study
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary; Jaume, David; Viollaz, … - 2015
Venezuela experienced slow economic growth during the 2000s. The economy suffered a recession in the early years of the period and during the international crisis of 2008, but most labour market indicators improved and moved along with the business cycle over the period. The only indicators that...
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