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Boats and tides and "Trickle Down" theories: What economists presume about wellbeing when they employ stochastic process theory in modeling behavior
Anderson, Gordon - 2012
. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309045
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Boats and tides and "trickle down" theories : what economists presume about wellbeing when they employ stochastic process theory in modeling behavior
Anderson, Gordon - 2012
. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional … GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. -- Stochastic processes ; poverty ; inequality ; wellbeing measurement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009547375
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Boats and tides and "trickle down" theories : what economists presume about wellbeing when they employ stochastic process theory in modeling behavior
Anderson, Gordon - 2012
. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional … GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. -- stochastic processes ; poverty ; inequality ; wellbeing measurement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665370
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Assessing absolute and relative pro-poor growth, with an application to selected African countries
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Verdier-Chouchane, Audrey - 2011
. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both … absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being robust to whether pro-poor judgements should be absolute or relative, the … ranges of absolute and relative poverty lines. The test is applied to distributional changes in five middle- and four lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269284
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Assessing absolute and relative pro-poor growth, with an application to selected African countries
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Verdier-Chouchane, Audrey - 2012
. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both … absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being robust to whether pro-poor judgements should be absolute or relative, the … ranges of absolute and relative poverty lines. The test is applied to distributional changes in five middle- and four lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009515911
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Assessing Absolute and Relative Pro-Poor Growth, with an Application to Selected African Countries
Bibi, Sami - 2013
. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both … absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being robust to whether pro-poor judgements should be absolute or relative, the … ranges of absolute and relative poverty lines. The test is applied to distributional changes in five middle- and four lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091945
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Assessing Absolute and Relative Pro-Poor Growth, with an Application to Selected African Countries
Bibi, Sami - 2013
. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both … absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being robust to whether pro-poor judgements should be absolute or relative, the … ranges of absolute and relative poverty lines. The test is applied to distributional changes in five middle- and four lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210337
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Relative deprivation in Tanzania
Atsebi, Bédhat Jean-Marc; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2019
This paper examines the importance of relative deprivation in Tanzania, a poor African country, using three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Survey. We contribute to earlier literature in Africa by controlling for time persistent unobservable individual characteristics (panel data) and by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129871
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Indices of social development and their application to Africa
Haan, Arjan de; Foa, Roberto - 2014
-being, poverty, growth or aid effectiveness. However, there has been little empirical analysis that tests these relationships …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414808
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Dimensions of African inequality
Bigsten, Arne - 2014
This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that determine inequality change, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249771