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Welfare dynamics in India over a quarter century : poverty, vulnerability, and mobility during 1987-2012

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2020

, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40-60 percent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period and, thus, are likely to be …

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An ex-ante assessment on poverty and cash transfer benefits in Viet Nam under the Covid-19 pandemic

Long Thanh Giang; Kikkawa, Aiko; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2021

poverty status of the Vietnamese households, and then simulated the impact of cash transfer programs by the government of … Vietnam on the income and poverty status of households. Our simulations suggest that COVID-19 leads to substantial reduction …-poor and helps bring about 1.2 million people out of poverty. The transfers would be particularly pro-poor for ethnic minority …

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Inequality and support for government responses to COVID-19

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Malesky, Edmund; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020

Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring these insights into the debates about comparative support for government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We fill in this gap by analyzing rich survey data from six countries...

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COVID-19 pandemic and the health and well-being of vulnerable people in Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Minh Do - 2022

pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …

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Does the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affect the poor? : evidence from a six-country survey

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Toan Luu Duc Huynh; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, much needs to be learnt on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We contribute new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country...

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Social safety nets in Tunisia : do benefits reach the poor and vulnerable households at the regional level?

Nasri, Khaled - 2020

disagreement between eligibility criteria and a person's poverty status. …

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Measuring economic mobility in India using noisy data : a partial identification approach

Li, Hao; Millimet, Daniel L.; Roychowdhury, Punarjit - 2023

We examine economic mobility in India while accounting for misclassification to better understand the welfare e§ects of the rise in inequality. To proceed, we extend recently developed methods on the partial identification of transition matrices. Allowing for modest misclassification, we find...

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What if supply-side policies are not enough? : the perverse interaction of flexibility and austerity

Dosi, Giovanni; Pereira, Marcelo C.; Roventini, Andrea; … - 2018

In this work we develop a set of labour market and fiscal policy experiments upon the labour and credit augmented "Schumpeter meeting Keynes" agent-based model. The labour market is declined under two institutional variants, the "Fordist" and the "Competitive" set- ups meant to capture the...

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The labour-augmented K+S model: a laboratory for the analysis of institutional and policy regimes

Dosi, Giovanni; Pereira, Marcelo de Carvalho; … - 2018

In this work we discuss the research findings from the labour-augmented Schumpeter meeting Keynes (K+S) agent-based model. It comprises comparative dynamics experiments on an artificial economy populated by heterogeneous, interacting agents, as workers, firms, banks and the government. The...

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Spending in social services in China : a multi-country analysis

Bajo Rubio, Oscar; Gómez-Plana, Antonio G. - 2020

In this paper, we simulate the effects of an increase in the levels of public spending in health care and social assistance in the Chinese economy, and examine its global effects, i.e., the effects on the main macroeconomic variables of seven regions of the world economy, namely, China, Japan,...

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