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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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negligible role in the income growth of the poorest households. -- Azerbaijan ; poverty ; growth incidence curves ; economic …
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New tools allow one to study the incidence of economic growth by initial level of income, and to measure the rate of pro-poor growth in an economy. An application is provided using data for China in the 1990s
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used are inconsistent with the properties that are considered desirable for a measure of the level of poverty.The authors … measurement tools is the growth incidence curve, which gives growth rates by quantiles (such as percentiles) ranked by income …. Taking the area under this curve up to the headcount index of poverty gives a measure of the rate of pro-poor growth …
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This paper undertakes an assessment of the evolution of inequality in the distribution of consumption expenditure in India over the last quarter-century, from 1983 to 2009-10, employing data available in the quinquennial 'thick' surveys of the National Sample Survey Office. We find that...
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