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Effects of food price shocks on child malnutrition: The Mozambican experience 2008/09
Arndt, Channing; Hussain, M. Azhar; Østerdal, Lars Peter - 2012
inflation with child malnutrition status. We find that the prevalence of underweight amongst children rises in response to a … higher inflation rate for basic food products. Stunting and wasting malnutrition measures are mostly insensitive to the … inflation rate. The very high food inflation during 2008/09 was responsible for an extra 39,000 moderately underweight and 24 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319790
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Drivers of poverty reduction in lagging regions: Evidence from rural Western China
Christiaensen, Luc; Pan, Lei; Wang, Sangui - 2010
provinces of China, Inner Mongolia and Gansu. Rising labour productivity in agriculture has been key, and still holds much … highlight that the scope for reducing poverty in lagging rural regions is often substantial in agriculture, also in countries … where non-agriculture drives overall growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280210
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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries: Are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andy - 2013
The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary threshold in per capita income but it does matter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319824
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On the dynamics of multidimensional chronic pover
Garcia-Diaz, Rocio; Prudencio, Daniel - 2015
Understanding chronic poverty and its evolution is complex given the amount of information involved. This paper proposes a new approach to analysing the evolution of chronic poverty in a multivariate setting using a Shapley decomposition of a multidimensional chronic poverty measure proposed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418556
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The global consumption and income project: An introduction and preliminary findings
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2015
We introduce two separate datasets - the Global Consumption Dataset and the Global Income Dataset - containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418574
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Ghana: Poverty reduction over thirty years
McKay, Andy; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarp, Finn - 2015
Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both consumption poverty and non-monetary poverty outcomes over this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418585
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Reference groups and the poverty line: An axiomatic approach with an empirical illustration
Chakravarty, Satya R.; Chattopadhyay, Nachiketa; … - 2015
A recent trend in the study of poverty is to consider a relative poverty line, one that is responsive to the nature of the income distribution. We develop an axiomatic approach to the determination of an amalgam poverty line. Given a reference income (e.g. the mean or the median), the amalgam...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418600
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Poverty decomposition by regression: An application to Tanzania
Fujii, Tomoki - 2015
We develop a poverty decomposition method that is based on a consumption regression model. Because this method uses an integral of the partial derivatives of a poverty measure with respect to time, the resulting poverty decomposition satisfies time-reversion consistency and sub-period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418617
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Rethinking the measurement of the middle class: Evidence from Egypt
Abu-Ismail, Khalid; Sarangi, Niranjan - 2015
The degree of choice households have over their consumption expenditure is critical in deciding their economic class. Applying our measure to Egyptian household budget surveys, we estimate the population size of the middle class in Egypt and assess their well-being in the period 1995-2011. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418618
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Spatial and temporal analyses of women's wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Nanivazo, Malokele; Mahrt, Kristi - 2015
spatial and temporal comparisons of women's wellbeing using data from the Demographic and Health Survey and the Multiple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418638