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Poverty and institutional regimes: A generalised budget approach in 11 countries
Vrooman, J.C. - 2009
The standard poverty lines applied in empirical research tend to be problematic in terms of validity, reliability, ease of application or socio-political credibility. This paper introduces an international version of an alternative method, which originally has been developed for the Netherlands....
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How sensitive is regional poverty measurement in Latin America to the value of the poverty line?
Castañeda, R. Andrés; Garriga, Santiago; Gasparini, … - 2018
This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of international poverty lines for Latin America based on the official poverty lines chosen by the Latin American governments and commonly used in the public debate. The paper exploits a comprehensive data set of 86...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164609
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On measuring global poverty
Ravallion, Martin - In: Annual review of economics 12 (2020), pp. 167-188
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404572
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How sensitive is regional poverty measurement in Latin America to the value of the poverty line?
Castañeda, R. Andrés; Garriga, Santiago; Gasparini, … - 2018
This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of international poverty lines for Latin America based on the official poverty lines chosen by the Latin American governments and commonly used in the public debate. The paper exploits a comprehensive data set of 86...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011893270
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Remesas internacionales y pobreza : estudios de caso en Michoacán y Oaxaca
Salas Alfaro, Renato; González Becerril, Juan Gabino; … - In: Análisis económico 34 (2019) 85, pp. 143-168
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Poverty in the Philippines : An Update and Reexamination
Balisacan, Arsenio M. - In: Philippine Review of Economics 38 (2001) 1, pp. 15-52
What is known, based on official poverty data, about spatial poverty profiles (regional, provincial, or rural vs. urban) as well as poverty changes in recent years, is not quiet robust. The main problem is that the official practice for poverty comparison is somewhat inconsistent. This paper is...
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Poverty, inequality, and the local natural resource curse
Loayza, Norman; Mier y Teran, Alfredo; Rigolini, Jamele - 2013
from the mine, while district-level consumption inequality increases in all districts belonging to a producing province …
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Robust estimates of changes in poverty and inequality in post-independence Namibia
Levine, Sebastian; Roberts, Benjamin - 2012
high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in … mean incomes rather than redistribution. Even so, there have been important changes in inequality, especially between … different social groups, as educational attainment has replaced ethnicity as the main determinant of inequality between groups. …
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Are the MDGs priority in development strategies and aid programmes? Only few are!
Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko - 2008
a goal of reducing inequality in income and other dimensions of poverty within and between countries. Second, this …
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Creating National Poverty Profiles and Growth Incidence Curves with Incomplete Income or Consumption Expenditure Data: An Application to Bolivia
Spatz, Julius; Klasen, Stephan; Grosse, Melanie - 2006
(DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
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