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Household Income Mobility in India: 1993-2011

Azam, Mehtabul - 2016

Using nationally representative longitudinal survey, we examine the income mobility among rural (urban) Indian … households over 1993-2004 and 2004-2011 (2004-2011). We find mobility estimates that mirror the social hierarchy: Forward Hindu … Caste (FHC) households experienced the highest (lowest) upward (downward) mobility. Considerable gaps between FHC households …

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Welfare effects of changed prices: The "tortilla crisis" revisited

Motzigkeit Gonzalez, Rita - 2016

This study uses a comprehensive framework to quantify the welfare changes of rural and non-rural households in Mexico associated with the food price crisis of 2007. The total change in welfare is decomposed into five contributors. I find that income effects, i.e. changes through profits and...

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Towards comparative and aggregate vulnerability: An analysis of welfare distributions in rural areas in Thailand and Vietnam

Hardeweg, Bernd; Wagener, Andreas; Waibel, Hermann - 2010

Several measures of vulnerability to poverty have been suggested in the literature. In practice, only little is known about the robustness of vulnerability comparisons based on these often quite specific measures. The theory of stochastic orders can be applied to shed some light on such issues....

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Linkages between pro-poor growth, social programmes and labour market: The recent Brazilian experience

Kakwani, Nanak; Neri, Marcelo; Son, Hyun H. - 2009

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its globalization process, focusing on the role played by the labour market and social programmes. Methodologically, the paper makes two contributions to the literature. One is the proposal of...

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Miserly developments

Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove - 2008

In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz curve, but can also be seen as a measure of polarization...

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Applying artificial intelligence on satellite imagery to compile granular poverty statistics

Hofer, Martin; Sako, Tomas; Martinez, Arturo; Addawe, … - 2020

The spatial granularity of poverty statistics can have a significant impact on the efficiency of targeting resources meant to improve the living conditions of the poor. However, achieving granularity typically requires increasing the sample sizes of surveys on household income and expenditure or...

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Predicting poverty using geospatial data in Thailand

Puttanapong, Nattapong; Martinez, Arturo M.; Addawe, Mildred - 2020

Poverty statistics are conventionally compiled using data from household income and expenditure survey or living standards survey. This study examines an alternative approach in estimating poverty by investigating whether readily available geospatial data can accurately predict the spatial...

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Vulnerabilidad a la pobreza y educación en Bolivia: Una aproximación a partir de pseudo-paneles

Garbay Flores, Sergio Andrés - 2019

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Evolution of Inequality in Nigeria: A Tale of Falling Inequality, Rising Poverty and Regional Heterogeneity

Odozi, John; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2022

Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria overtime. The disconnect between these findings and anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was...

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The Effect of Firm-Level Investment on Inequality and Poverty around the World

Tosun, Mehmet S.; Watson, Ethan D.; Yildiz, Serhat - 2022

This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a sample of firms from 87 countries for the period from 1979 to 2018, we document that firm-level investment is negatively associated with various measures of income inequality. This...

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