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Social Capital, Trust, and Well-Being in the Evaluation of Wealth
Hamilton, Kirk - 2017
Gallup World Poll, the paper presents a range of estimates of the wealth-equivalent values of social trust. Such values are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968746
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Assessing Socioeconomic Resilience to Floods in 90 Countries
Hallegatte, S. - 2017
This paper presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare, and a tool to help decision makers identify the most promising policy options to reduce welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969268
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Born with a Silver Spoon : Inequality in Educational Achievement Across the World
Balcázar Salazar, Carlos - 2017
This paper assesses inequality of opportunity in educational achievement using the Human Opportunity Index methodology on data from the Programme for International Student Assessment. The findings suggest that there are large inequalities in learning outcomes as measured by demonstrated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972308
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History of Events and Life-Satisfaction in Transition Countries
Dabalen, Andrew - 2017
Using Life in Transition Survey data for 27 transition countries, the findings of this paper suggest that higher life satisfaction is correlated with lesser experience of unpleasant events such as labor market shock or economic distress, mostly in the recent past. Social capital such as trust,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976211
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Citizen-Centric Governance Indicators : Measuring and Monitoring Governance by Listening to the People and Not the Interest Groups
Ivanyna, Maksym - 2017
' evaluations. Using data from the World Values Survey (and other sources) we implement this framework into practice and build …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976731
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An Evaluative Look Behind the Curtain : World Bank Group Staff's Early Experience with the Shared Prosperity Goal
Smets, Lodewijk - 2018
In 2013, the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank Group endorsed two ambitious goals: eliminating extreme … poverty in the world by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity. The latter is defined as fostering the growth in the income of … the poorest 40 percent of the population in each country. In 2016–17, the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931053
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Lower Bounds on Inequality of Opportunity and Measurement Error
Balcázar Salazar, Carlos - 2017
When measuring inequality of opportunity, researchers usually opt to eliminate within-type variation. Provided that in practice it is impossible to observe all circumstances, this implies that the researcher estimates a lower bound of the true level of inequality of opportunity. By using data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971322
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The Performance of a Consumption Augmented Asset Index in Ranking Households and Identifying the Poor
Ngo, Diana - 2018
Asset ownership indices are widely used as inexpensive proxies for consumption. This paper shows that these indices can be augmented using dichotomous indicators for consumption, which are equally easy to obtain. The paper uses multiple rounds of Living Standards Measurement Study surveys from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925591
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Beyond Income Poverty : Nonmonetary Dimensions of Poverty in Uganda
Etang Ndip, Alvin - 2017
The proportion of Ugandan households living in poverty reduced by more than half between 1993 and 2013. Using household survey data, this paper analyzes nonmonetary dimensions of poverty in Uganda for levels and trends, to explore whether the observed reduction in monetary-based poverty are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951522
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Measuring Natural Risks in the Philippines : Socioeconomic Resilience and Wellbeing Losses
Walsh, Brian James - 2019
Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as its main measure of disaster severity. Using a new,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893747