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Channels of Redistribution : Inequality and Poverty in the Russian Transition
Commander, Simon John; Tolstopiatenko, Andrei; Yemtsov, … - 2014
The paper uses a large household dataset -- the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring survey -- to measure inequality and poverty in Russia since the start of transition in 1992. What emerges is that inequality had already emerged by 1992 and has grown subsequently. By 1996 the Gini for Russia was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014109490
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Poverty Among Ethnic Minorities : The Transition Process, Inequality and Economic Growth
Tuan, Bui Anh; Nguyen, Cuong Viet; Pham, Thu Phuong - 2023
This article investigates the process of reducing poverty in ethnic minority households. Using two recent Vietnam household surveys, we find that ethnic minority households are more likely to be persistently poor and less likely to be persistently non-poor than ethnic majority households. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350661
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Being Poor, Feeling Poorer : Inequality, Poverty and Poverty Perceptions in the Western Balkans
Koczan, Zsoka - 2016
Emerging Europe has undergone a major economic transformation over the past 25 years. Most countries experienced initial drops in output during transition, followed by recovery in the second half of the 1990s. The path of transition in the Western Balkans has however been particularly uneven....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996074
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What is Middle Class About the Middle Classes Around the World?
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - 2008
This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education investments, employment patterns and other features of the of the economic lives of the middle classes defined as those whose daily consumption per capita is between $2 and $4 or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221786
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Inter-Country Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach
Reddy, Sanjay G.; Visaria, Sujata; Asali, Muhammad - 2014
We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the basic requirements of human beings are superior to the existing money-metric approaches. In this exercise, we implement a uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057114
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Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory
Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - 2012
This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have been found to be important welfare determinants in behavioural economics. Most notably, we incorporate reference-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319772
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Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory
Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - 2013
This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects emphasized in Prospect Theory - to social welfare measurement. We suggest a new notion of equivalent income, the income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291490
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Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory
Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - 2012
This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have been found to be important welfare determinants in behavioural economics. Most notably, we incorporate reference-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691049
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Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory
Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - 2013
This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects emphasized in Prospect Theory - to social welfare measurement. We suggest a new notion of equivalent income, the income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009700305
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Subjective well-being in China, 2005-2010 : the role of relative income, gender and location
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Xiao, Saizi; Yeoh, Kok Kheng - 2016
-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … find that women, urban residents and people with higher income are happier in China. More schooling, better health and … China, conditional on socio-economic differences. On the other hand, rural residents are poorer than urban residents so that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449772