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The theory and evidence supporting a relativist approach to poverty measurement are critically reviewed. Various …, implying a relative poverty measure. The paper then reviews the problems encountered in testing for welfare effects of relative … deprivation and discusses the implications of micro evidence from Malawi. The results are consistent with the emphasis given to …
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The theory and evidence supporting a relativist approach to poverty measurement are critically reviewed. Various … a relative poverty measure. The paper then reviews the problems encountered in testing for welfare effects of relative … deprivation and discusses the implications of micro evidence from Malawi. The results are consistent with the emphasis given to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747459
The theory and evidence supporting a relativist approach to poverty measurement are critically reviewed. Various …, implying a relative poverty measure. The paper then reviews the problems encountered in testing for welfare effects of relative … deprivation and discusses the implications of micro evidence from Malawi. The results are consistent with the emphasis given to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521272
The isograph methodology is developed here with associated distributions, indicators of inequality, additional results, and is implemented on 53 LIS countries (with an annex covering 655 LIS country-year samples). The gb2 and other classical distributions (FC, Dagum, SinghMaddala) are presented...
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. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its … effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine existing poverty imputation models using 14 multi-topic household … surveys conducted over the past decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam. We find that adding household …
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. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its … effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine existing poverty imputation models using 14 multi-topic household … surveys conducted over the past decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam. We find that adding household …
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Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … surveys conducted over the past decade in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam, we find encouraging …
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Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … surveys conducted over the past decade in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam, we find encouraging …
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