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Prices, Inequality and Poverty: Methodology and Indian Evidence
Mishra, Ankita; Ray, Ranjan - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2009
-2005) covered both first and second generation reforms in India. The results suggest that while rural poverty rates, in both nominal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008492280
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Prices, Inequality and Poverty: Methodology and Indian Evidence
Mishra, Ankita; Ray, Ranjan - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2009
-2005) covered both first and second generation reforms in India. The results suggest that while rural poverty rates, in both nominal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008492314
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Expenditure Behavior of Households and Welfare of Children and Widows in Pakistan, South Africa : A Study on Unit Record Data
Ray, Ranjan - 2000
This study investigates on Pakistani and South African data gender issues in household behavior.A test for gender bias is proposed and applied.Education spending shows significant bias in favor of boys in Pakistan, though not in South Africa.In contrast,the calorie data shows no such bias in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014180456
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Resource Inflows and Household Composition : Evidence from South African Panel Data
Maitra, Pushkar; Ray, Ranjan - 2001
Economic analysis of household behaviour, usually, assumes that household size and composition are fixed and exogenous. This study departs from this practice by analysing resource and household compositional variables, using an interdependent framework that treats them as jointly endogenous. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014137059
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Intra-Household Resource Allocation and Their Impact on Expenditure Patterns : Comparative Evidence from South Africa and Pakistan
Maitra, Pushkar; Ray, Ranjan - 2014
This paper tests, using data from South Africa and Pakistan, two major implications of the unitary household model, namely, that (a) each individual pools the various components of her/his non-labour earnings, and (b) men and women pool their non-labour earnings between themselves. The study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014145544
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Interaction between HIV Awareness, Knowledge, Safe Sex Practice and HIV Incidence: Evidence from Botswana
Ray, Ranjan; Sinha, Kompal - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2011
Botswana, the paper presents comparable evidence from India to put the Botswana results in perspective. The results point to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144407
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Impact of Household Size, Family Composition and Socio Economic Characteristics on Poverty in Rural India
Meenakshi, J.V.; Ray, Ranjan - Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics - 1999
This paper utilises micro data on consumption, family composition and land ownership of nearly 70,000 rural Indian households to analyse poverty. The study combines household level information with State level welfare indicators to examine the impact of household size and composition, caste, sex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005418900
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Multidimensional Deprivation in China, India and Vietnam: A Comparative Study on Micro Data
Ray, Ranjan; Sinha, Kompal - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2011
This study compares living standards in China, India and Vietnam using the recent multidimensional approach. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144415
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Duration and Persistence in Multidimensional Deprivation: Methodology and Australian Application
Nicholas, Aaron; Ray, Ranjan - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2011
This paper extends the recent literature on static multidimensional deprivation to propose dynamic deprivation measures that incorporate both the persistence and duration of deprivation across multiple dimensions. The paper then illustrates the usefulness of the extension by applying it to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144417
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Multi Dimensional Deprivation in the Awakening Giants: A Comparative Study on Micro Data
Mishra, Ankita; Ray, Ranjan - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2010
This paper evaluates and compares multidimensional deprivation in India and China during the 1990s and beyond. The … between India and China that are based on macro aggregates such as trade, investment and growth rates and undertakes a …. Deprivation is still unacceptably high in some categories. While rural deprivation is much higher in India than in China, they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680496