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Focusing on the welfare of the less well off as a measure of real societal progress is the fundamental principle underlying the WBG indicator of "shared prosperity" , namely income growth of the bottom 40 percent in every country. This paper uses a database assembled by the World Bank Group to...
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impact in developing countries. This paper uses a micro-simulation approach to assess the poverty and distributional effects … of the crisis in the Philippines. The authors find increases in both the level and the depth of aggregate poverty. Income …
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Measuring the poverty and distributional impact of the global crisis for developing countries is not easy, given the … addressing questions like who are being affected by the crisis and by how much, and who are vulnerable to falling into poverty if … literature, to measure the poverty and distributional impact of macroeconomic shocks by linking macro projections with pre …
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This paper attempts to determine the extent to which inequality in wage earnings in the Russian Federation is unfair. Unlike other similar attempts that can, at best, produce a lower bound on the estimate of the share of inequality that is unfair, this paper exploits the longitudinal nature of...
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This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since … rising) share of the population faces significant risk of slipping back into poverty. India's poor are increasingly … concentrated in low-income states with historically lower rates of economic progress. Even as India has reduced poverty faster than …
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This paper uses panel data to analyze factors that contributed to the rapid decline in poverty in India between 2005 … components of household livelihoods to observed changes in poverty. The results show that poverty decline is associated with a … farm to nonfarm sources of income in rural areas. Transfers, in the form of remittances and social programs, have …
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among household members, be engaged in daily wage labor, own little land, and be less likely to receive remittances. This … poverty profile for 2005 is similar to the profile in the mid-1980s and hence at first glance it would appear that little has … two rounds of the Bangladesh Household Income and Expenditure Survey to decompose the micro-determinants of poverty …
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the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank?s twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …
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