Similar Search Results

Growth and inequality in the distribution of India's consumption expenditure 1983 to 2009-10

Subramanian, Sreenivasan; Jayaraj, Dhairiyarayar - 2015

India over the last quarter-century, from 1983 to 2009-10, employing data available in the quinquennial 'thick' surveys of … literature available on the subject in India. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484907

Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes and household welfare : an investigation of India's employment guarantee programme

Basu, Parantap; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2020

administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National … Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Using a life cycle model, we argue that a long wage payment lag in this flagship … employment options. Empirical evidence based on primary data lends support to our key theoretical prediction that wage payment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198891

The distributional impact of structural transformation in rural India : model-based simulation and case-study evidence

Elbers, Chris; Lanjouw, Peter - 2019

entitled How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics, and point to two distinct, and staggered, drivers of … broadly in rural India. In this paper, we construct a simple model of a village economy that captures several of the salient … outcomes observed in the village. We suggest that to the extent that there exist other villages in rural India with such …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997574

Self-employment and labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua

Alaniz, Enrique; Espino, Alma; Gindling, Thomas - 2019

We study the labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua, focusing on the factors that help men and women move into an advantageous labour market state from an unfavourable state. We consider 'advantageous' states to be formal salaried employees and self-employed workers...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137965

Explaining poverty evolution : the case of Mozambique

Arndt, Channing; Hussain, Mohammad Azhar; Jones, E. Samuel - 2011

Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile. This paper employs recently collected data on household...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008903416

A review of consumption poverty estimation for Mozambique

Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Mahrt, Kristi; Salvucci, … - 2016

We broadly review the challenges encountered and choices made in the national assessments of consumption poverty using the 1996/97, 2002/03, and 2008/09 budget surveys. Efforts to maintain consistency with the previous survey imply that prior choices tend to be adopted in subsequent analyses....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452932

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/10010479967

Keep it real : measuring real inequality using survey data from developing countries

Beck, Ulrik - 2015

This paper investigates how two effects drive wedges between nominal and real inequality estimates. The effects are caused by (i) differences in the composition of consumption over the income distribution coupled with differential inflation of consumption items; and (ii) quantity discounting...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411136

The global consumption and income project : an introduction and preliminary findings

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 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/10010462536

Vulnerability to natural shocks : assessing the short-term impact on consumption and poverty of the 2015 flood in Mozambique

Salvucci, Vincenzo; Santos, Ricardo - 2019

Mozambique is among the most disaster-prone countries in the world. A bigger than usual, and mostly unexpected, flood occurred in the central-northern region of the country in the first few months of 2015, causing huge damage to infrastructures. In this paper, we use a nationally representative...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025748