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Measuring Genuine Progress : An Example from the UN Millennium Development Goals Project

Fisher, William P. - 2021

measures from different sets of indicators in a common metric, and frame a meaningful interpretive context. Data on 22 MDG … indicators from 64 countries are scored and analyzed. Model fit was reasonable, the item hierarchy tells a meaningful story of …

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Matching household surveys with DHS data to create nationally representative time series of poverty : an application to Bolivia

Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009 - This version: December 19, 2009

In many developing countries, there does not exist a time series of nationally repre- sentative household budget or income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This...

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An appraisal of interlinkages between macro-economic indicators of economic well-being and the sustainable development goals

Cook, David; Brynhildur Davíðsdóttir - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 184 (2021), pp. 1-11

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The relationship of economic sentiment and GDP growth in Russia in light of the Covid-19 crisis

Kitrar, Liudmila; Lipkind, Tamara - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 9 (2021) 1, pp. 7-29

all Russian regions. The total economic sentiment indicator (TESI) combines information on 18 survey-based indicators …

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The Performance of Business and Consumer Sentiment for Early Estimates of GDP Growth : Old Turning Points and New Challenges of the Corona Crisis

Kitrar, Liudmila - 2020

the composite economic sentiment indicator (ESI), which combines 18 indicators based on the results of surveys of …

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Using Sentiment Surveys to Predict GDP Growth and Stock Returns

Guzman, Giselle - 2012

This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16...

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Operationalizing Inclusive Growth : Per-Percentile Diagnostics to Inform Redistribution Policies

Kireyev, Alexei - 2020

Inclusive growth, narrowly defined in this paper as growth that helps reduce inequality, is achieved if consumption of the poor increases faster than consumption of the rich. The paper presents a simple accounting framework for a per-percentile consumption diagnostics that could inform...

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Income distribution dynamics and pro-poor growth in the world from 1970 to 2003

Holzmann, Hajo; Vollmer, Sebastian; Weisbrod, Julian - 2007

We estimate and analyze the global income distribution from national log-normal income distributions for the years 1970 to 2003, as well as the income distribution of seven regional subsamples. From these distributions we obtain measures for global and regional inequality and poverty, and find...

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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given … whether we compare individuals or countries, suggesting that absolute income plays an important role in influencing well-being … more rapid growth in life satisfaction. These results together suggest that measured subjective well-being grows hand in …

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Aid effectiveness and selectivity: Integrating multiple objectives into aid allocations

McGillivray, Mark - 2003

This paper surveys recent research on aid and growth. It also provides an overview of research on inter-recipient aid allocation. The overall focus of the paper is on the relevance of these issues for poverty-efficient aid, defined as a pattern of inter-recipient aid allocation which maximises...

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