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Matching household surveys with DHS data to create nationally representative time series of poverty : an application to Bolivia

Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009 - This version: December 19, 2009

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

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Issues and challenges in measuring national income, wealth, poverty, and inequality in sub-Saharan African countries : an introduction

Klasen, Stephan; Blades, Derek W. - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 59 (2013), pp. 1-8

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International income poverty measurement : which way now?

Klasen, Stephan; Krivobokova, Tatyana; Greb, Friederike; … - 2015

poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …

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Leaving no one behind : some conceptual and empirical issues

Klasen, Stephan; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Journal of globalization and development 9 (2018) 2, pp. 1-9

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Essays in poverty, inequality and political economy

Lahoti, Rahul - 2017

The thesis delves into questions of measurement of poverty and inequality and evaluates a hypothesis behind a policy … multidimensional poverty measure that takes into account intra-household inequality when measuring poverty. The last paper... …

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Gender-related indicators of well-being

Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2004

This paper discusses the rationale as well as the challenges involved when constructing gender-related indicators of well-being. It argues that such indicators are critically important but that their construction involved a number of conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual...

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Gender-related indicators of well-being

Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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There Is Poverty Convergence

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus - 2016

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents … evidence against the existence of convergence in global poverty rates despite convergence in household mean income levels and … the close linkage between income growth and poverty reduction. We show that this finding is driven by a specification that …

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Pro-poor progress in education in developing countries?

Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - 2009

Spurred by international commitments and expanded funding at the national and international level, attendance in education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this expansion in enrolments reduced existing inequalities in...

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Inequality in human development : an empirical assessment of thirty-two countries

Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2009

One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. In this paper, we apply a simple approach to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows comparison...

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