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Income and consumption inequality in China : a comparative approach with India

Gradín, Carlos; Wu, Binbin - 2019

We analyse income and expenditure distribution in China in a comparative perspective with India. These countries … expenditure in India, especially at the top of the distribution. Both types of inequality are similar in China, although … and levels between the two wellbeing distributions. As a result, expenditure inequality is higher in China than in India …

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Incomes, inequality, and poverty in Kenya : a long-term perspective

Bigsten, Arne; Manda, Damiano Kulundu; Mwabu, Germano M.; … - 2014

inequality and poverty to changes in factor endowments and changes in economic and employment structures. We also provide some …

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Understanding Ghana's growth success story and job creation challenges

Aryeetey, Ernest; Baah-Boateng, William - 2015

in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak. Additionally … employment generating sectors of mining and oil extraction. Fixing the problem of the missing middle of dwindling manufacturing …

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Is inequality underestimated in Mozambique? : accounting for underreported consumption

Arndt, Channing; Mahrt, Kristi - 2017

Household budget surveys in sub-Saharan Africa are designed to facilitate poverty measurement and may fail to fully capture consumption in wealthy households. As a result, inequality is likely underestimated. We address upper tier consumption underreporting by aligning consumption derived from...

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Transfers and development : easy come, easy go?

Christiaensen, Luc J.; Lei Pan - 2010

Contrary to the popular notion that money that is easily earned, is also easily spent, economic theory holds that income is fungible. Drawing on the concept of mental accounting, this study theoretically explores when such a link between spending behaviour and the effort dispensed in obtaining...

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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...

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The (declining) role of households in sustaining China's economy : structural path analysis for 1997 - 2007

Yang, Ling; Thurlow, James; Lahr, Michael L. - 2012

Current explanations for private consumption's diminished role in China focus on the expansion of exports and investments. Using structural path analysis, we find additional contributing factors. First, growth patterns during 1997-2007 favoured sectors with low production multipliers. Secondly,...

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Foreign aid, public sector and private consumption in Uganda : a cointegrated vector autoregressive approach

Bwire, Thomas; Morrissey, Oliver; Lloyd, Tim A. - 2013

This paper employs a cointegrated vector autoregressive model to assess the growth effect of aid in Uganda over the period 1972-2008. Results show that aid in Uganda has had both direct and indirect beneficial association with growth; that it is the productivity and not the stead state level of...

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Analysis of household demand patterns using household data : re-thinking the use of unit values or community prices

Nsabimana, Aimable - 2024

Analysis of household food consumption patterns and welfare requires knowledge of household demand responses to changes in price and income. Estimation of the price and expenditure elasticities requires detailed data on household purchases and prices, which are often not available in many...

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Measuring consumption over the phone : evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia

Abate, Gashaw Tadesse; De Brauw, Alan; Hirvonen, Kalle; … - 2022

The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middleincome countries has made it difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard poverty measurement requires collecting household consumption data, which is rarely done by...

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