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Exploring the quality of income data in two African household surveys for the purpose of tax-benefit microsimulation modelling : imputing employment income in Tanzania and Zambia

McLennan, David; Noble, Michael; Wright, Gemma Clare; … - 2021

The quality of data on employment income is explored using Tanzanian and Zambian household survey datasets. The extent of missing and implausible income data is assessed and four different methods are applied to impute missing or implausible values. The four imputation methods are also applied...

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Measuring earnings inequality in South Africa using household survey and administrative tax microdata

Kerr, Andrew - 2021

Overall income inequality in South Africa is very high, and inequality generated in the labour market is a key driver of inequality. In this paper, I use the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, the General Household Surveys, and administrative tax microdata to describe earnings inequality in...

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Multidimensional poverty in Viet Nam : evidence from a rural household survey

Hoang Xuan Diem; Tran Van Hoang - 2018

For years, the international development community has been considering poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon, which … approach to thoroughly measure poverty. This paper is an attempt to assess the state and evolution of multidimensional poverty …. However, there need to be more efforts to reduce the gap in poverty headcount ratios among Kinh and non-Kinh groups …

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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

difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard poverty measurement requires … estimated poverty headcount was twice as high. There is evidence of survey fatigue occurring early in phone interviews but not …

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Thirty years in Africa's development : from structural adjustment to structural transformation?

Addison, Tony - 2015

been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …

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Child deprivation and income poverty in Ghana

Kofinti, Raymond Elikplim; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2015

This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …

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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s : Argentina country study

Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary S.; Jaume, David; … - 2015

Argentina experienced a decline in the early years of the 2000s, from 2000 to 2002, in GDP and in most labour market indicators, followed by improvements in nearly all of them, tracing out a U-shaped pattern. The international crisis of 2008 impacted negatively only on the unemployment rate and...