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Decomposing the contribution of migration to poverty reduction : methodology and application to Tanzania

Christiaensen, Luc J.; De Weerdt, Joachim; Kanbur, Ravi - 2018

In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses realized by the various migration streams. We present a simple but powerful decomposition methodology that uses panel data to measure the contributions of different migration...

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Migration and Urban Poverty and Inequality in China

Park, Albert - 2014

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … measures of urban income inequality. Significant differences between migrants and local residents are found for non …

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Should We Track Migrant Households When Collecting Household Panel Data? Household Relocation, Economic Mobility and Attrition Biases in the Rural Philippines

Fuwa, Nobuhiko - 2011

Based on household panel data that tracked migrant households (with an additional survey cost of 17 percent), this article describes behavior of household relocation and quantifies the extent of attrition biases in estimating the determinants of per capita household consumption and of its growth...

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Addressing the severity and intensity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa : how relevant is the ICT and financial development pathway?

Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Armah, Mark Kojo; Taale, Francis; … - 2021

The study examines the effectiveness of financial development, financial access, and ICT diffusion in reducing the severity and intensity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators, and the Global Consumption and Income Project...

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Does development reduce migration?

Clemens, Michael A. - 2014

The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...

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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 … and in income inequality. The other contribution is a decomposition methodology that explores linkages between three …

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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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Chapter 13 Income distribution and development

Kanbur, Ravi - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 791-841). 2000

case studies rather than cross-country regression analysis; (ii) the phenomenon of increasing inequality; (iii) different …) alternative modes of redistribution in face of inequality increasing tendencies. …

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Chapter 8. Post-1970 Trends in Within-Country Inequality and Poverty : Rich and Middle-Income Countries

Morelli, Salvatore; Smeeding, Timothy; Thompson, Jeffrey - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 593-696). 2015

in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … income inequality, and inequality among those with top incomes. …

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Dimensions of African inequality

Bigsten, Arne - 2014

This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the … forces that determine inequality change, focusing on factor accumulation and structural change. Next it considers the …

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