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Ghana: Poverty reduction over thirty years
McKay, Andy; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarp, Finn - 2015
period. At the same time, inequality has risen over the past 20 years and spatial inequality, in both monetary and non …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418585
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Growth and poverty reduction in Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Demery, Lionel; McKay, Andy; Tarp, Finn - 2015
After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as agriculture in which most of the poor work and live....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418641
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Mozambique: Off-track or temporarily sidelined?
Arndt, Channing; Jones, E. Samuel; Tarp, Finn - 2015
Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418642
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Global interpersonal inequality: Trends and measurement
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Roope, Laurence; Tarp, Finn - 2014
interpersonal inequality during 1975-2005 are measured using data from UNU-WIDER's World Income Inequality Database. In order to … better understand the trends, global interpersonal inequality is decomposed into within-country and between …-country inequality. The paper illustrates that the relationship between global interpersonal inequality and these constituent components …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343234
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Shared Prosperity: Concepts, Data, and Some Policy Examples
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Galasso, Emanuela; Negre, Mario - 2018
indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873575
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Viet Nam: The dragon that rose from the ashes
Tarp, Finn - 2018
This study takes as its starting point what Gunnar Myrdal had to say about Viet Nam in the context of his seminal work, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, published in 1968. Myrdal pointed to the decisive nature of the Vietnamese people; and subsequent developments, which are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943931
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Rising food prices and household welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Fruttero, Anna; Leite, Phillippe - 2011
Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5.3 percent. This paper uses spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and two different household surveys to estimate the welfare consequences of these food price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278528
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Beyond Oaxaca-Blinder: Accounting for Differences in Household Income Distributions Across Countries
Bourguignon, François; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; … - 2002
functionals of two income distributions (such as inequality or poverty measures) into shares due to differences in the structure … those of the United States and Mexico, and find that most of Brazil's excess income inequality is due to underlying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477505
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Inequality, Institutions and Cooperation
Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020
We examine the effects of randomly introduced economic inequality on voluntary co- operation and whether this … inequality adversely affects aggregate contributions, and this is on account of high endowment individuals contributing a … significantly smaller share than those with low endowments. This negative effect of inequality on cooperation is exacerbated in high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322611
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COVID-19: Macroeconomic dimensions in the developing world
Addison, Tony; Sen, Kunal; Tarp, Finn - 2020
concludes that the pandemic could reinforce the existing trend towards higher social inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424061