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Pro-Poor Growth During Exceptional Growth : Evidence from a Transition Economy
Verme, Paolo - 2007
The paper uses a range of methods to assess changes in income, poverty and income distribution between 2001 and 2002 in Kazakhstan. It is found that outstanding GDP growth has been translated into very modest growth in mean household income. However, both income poverty and inequality have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053561
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Pobreza crónica y transitoria : evidencia para Argentina 1997 - 2012
Alejo, Javier; Garganta, Santiago - 2014
This paper studies the evolution of intertemporal poverty indicators in Argentina for the past 15 years. We exploit the rotation scheme of the EPH survey to construct successive panels covering the period 1997-2012. This allows decomposing poverty into its chronic and transient components. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010461191
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Sustainable impacts of social safety nets : the case of BISP in Pakistan
Iqbal, Tehmeena; Padda, Ihtsham ul Haq; Farooq, Shujaat - In: Pakistan journal of applied economics : PJAE 30 (2020) 2, pp. 153-180
The study has assessed the welfare impacts of unconditional cash transfers of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) by using impact evaluation panel surveys, conducted in 2011 (baseline) and 2016 (follow-up round). The panel survey contains information from both the beneficiary and...
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Quo vadis? Inequality and poverty dynamics across Russian regions
Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2003
This paper analyses regional data on inequality and poverty in Russia during 1994-2000 using published series from the … regionally representative Household Budget Survey. The paper finds that the share of inequality in Russia coming from the between … Russia over a ten-year time horizon. The projections show that if the observed trend continues, by 2010 the absolute majority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279122
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Is there poverty convergence?
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Klasen, Stephan; Wacker, Konstantin - 2017
Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents evidence against the existence of proportionate convergence in global poverty rates despite convergence in household mean income levels and the link between income growth and poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659608
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Intergenerational Poverty Dynamics in Poland : Family Background and Children's Educational Attainment During Transition
Beblo, Miriam; Lauer, Charlotte - 2014
In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of poverty from Polish parents to their children through children's educational attainment during the transition process of the 1990s. The relationship between family background and education is investigated using an ordered probit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014112776
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Intergenerational poverty dynamics in Poland : family background and children's educational attainment during transition
Beblo, Miriam - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428480
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Intergenerational poverty dynamics in Poland : family background and children's educational attainment during transition
Beblo, Miriam; Lauer, Charlotte - 2002
In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of poverty from Polish parents to their children through children´s educational attainment during the transition process of the 1990s. The relationship between family background and education is investigated using an ordered probit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447371
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A decomposition analysis of regional poverty in Russia
Kolenikov, Stanislav; Shorrocks, Anthony - 2003
This paper applies a new decomposition technique to the study of variations in poverty across the regions of Russia … levels from the all- Russia average to be attributed to three proximate sources; mean income per capita, inequality, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279360
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The Effects of the Informal Sector on Income of the Poor in Russia
Timofeyev, Yuriy - 2018
This paper clarifies the social and economic effects of employment in the informal sector on the poor in Russia in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014169466