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Growth, mobility and social welfare
Van de Gaer, Dirk; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2018
pure effect of economic growth, a mobility effect and a cost due to aversion to time fluctuations given individuals' ranks … in the income distribution. The mobility effect, generated by reranking in the income distribution has two components: a … mobility due to the increase in time fluctuations of individual income streams, the net effect of mobility remains positive. In …
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When unstable, growth is less pro-poor
Guillaumont, Patrick; Korachais, Catherine - 2010
Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662270
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The independence between price indices and living standards in Rwanda
Muller, Christophe - 1998 - (Preliminary version 1.1)
Using data from several seasons in Rwanda, we test the indpendence between Laspeyres local and seasonal price indices and nominal living standards in Rwanda. the results show that the hypothesis of independence cannot generally be rejected in rwanda, although the choice of the adult-equivalence...
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The Focus Axiom and Poverty : On the Co-Existence of Precise Language and Ambiguous Meaning in Economic Measurement
Subramanian, Subbu - 2011
Despite the formal rigour that attends social and economic measurement, the substantive meaning of particular measures could be compromised in the absence of a clear and coherent conceptualization of the phenomenon being measured. A case in point is afforded by the status of a focus axiom in the...
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Multidimensional Poverty Indices : A Critical Assessment
Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2018
This paper reviews and assesses issues involved in the measurement of multidimensional poverty, in particular the soundness of the various “axioms” and properties often imposed on poverty indices. It argues that some of these properties (such as those relating poverty and inequality) may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936570
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The Focus Axiom and Poverty : On the Co-Existence of Precise Language and Ambiguous Meaning in Economic Measurement
Subramanian, Subbu - 2012
Despite the formal rigour that attends social and economic measurement, the substantive meaning of particular measures could be compromised in the absence of a clear and coherent conceptualization of the phenomenon being measured. A case in point is afforded by the status of a focus-axiom in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210338
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Distributional Change, Reference Groups and the Measurement of Relative Deprivation
Silber, Jacques; Verme, Paolo - 2009
This paper attempts to explicitly integrate the idea of reference group when measuring relative deprivation. It assumes that in assessing her situation in society an individual compares herself with individuals whose environment can be considered as being similar to hers. By environment we mean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202779
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Poverty and Inequality Under Income and Price Dispersions
Muller, Christophe - 2005
We introduce an analytical framework for welfare analysis that accounts for changes in the joint distribution of prices and incomes by using parametric formulae of poverty and inequality measures. We propose statistical indicators for the levels, variabilities and a statistical link of price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063201
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Measuring Poverty Dynamics with Synthetic Panels Based on Repeated Cross-Sections
Dang, Hai-Anh; Lanjouw, Peter - 2022
multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264703
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Estimating the production function for human capital : results from a randomized control trial in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Cattan, Sarah; Fitzsimons, Emla; … - 2015
We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive and socio-emotional skills as a function of...
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