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Poverty and inequality during structural adjustment in rural Tanzania
Ferreira, Luisa - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1996
somewhat poorer. Increases in the inequality of income distribution eroded some of the potential for poverty reduction that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141894
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How Have the World's Poorest Fared Since the Early 1980s?
Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004
The authors present new estimates of the extent of the developing world's progress against poverty. By the frugal $1 a day standard, they find that there were 1.1 billion poor in 2001-almost 400 million fewer than 20 years earlier. Over the same period, the number of poor declined by more than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128537
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Poverty and economic growth in Egypt, 1995-2000
El-Laithy, Heba; Lokshin, Michael; Banerji, Arup - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003
household surveys (1995-96 and 1999-2000) to assess changes in poverty and inequality between 1995 and 2000. Their analysis is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133523
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The dynamics of poverty and its determinants - the case of the Northeast of Brazil and its states
Fiess, Norbert M.; Verner, Dorte - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004
In the northeast region of Brazil, the poverty picture of the past two decades reveals large fluctuations in the poverty level, and poverty depth. Findings based on the Brazilian annual household survey (Pesquisa Nacional de Amostra Domiciliar, PNAD) datasets from 1981-99 reveal that individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005115900
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Growth, poverty, and inequality : a regional panel for Bangladesh
Wodon, Quentin T. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999
Most empirical work on how growth affects poverty and inequality has been based on international panel data sets … associated with rising inequality only in urban areas. Simulations based on these estimates indicate how much poverty reduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134376
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When is growth pro-poor? Evidence from the diverse experiences of India's states
Ravallion, Martin; Datt, Gaurav - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999
The authors use 20 household surveys for India's 15 major states, spanning 1960-94, to study how initial conditions and the sectoral composition of economic growth interact to influence how much economic growth reduced poverty. The elasticities of measured poverty to farm yields and development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005116256
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Household welfare and poverty dynamics in Burkina Faso : empirical evidence from household surveys
Fofack, Hippolyte; Monga, Celestin; Tuluy, Hasan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001
The authors investigate the dynamics of poverty and income inequality in a cross-section of socio-economic groups and … rapidly increasing urban poverty accompanied by rising income inequality, declining poverty -growth elasticities, and … significant changes in the poverty map. In rural areas, the incidence of poverty remained the same and income inequality did not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005116263
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Measuring poverty using qualitative perceptions of welfare
Pradhan, Menno; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1998
The authors show how subjective poverty lines can be derived using simple qualitative assessments of perceived consumption adequacy, based on a household survey. Respondents were asked whether their consumption of food, housing, and clothing was adequate for their family's needs. The author's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005129394
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Are there dynamic gains from a poor-area development program?
Jalan, Jyotsna; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1996
Poor-area development programs- in which the government transfers extra resources to unusually poor areas -have been widely used to fight poverty. There has been some research on such programs, but little is known about their impact on household living standards over time. The authors address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005116711
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What can new survey data tell us about recent changes in distribution and poverty?
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1996
-93, though experiences differed across regions and countries. There was no general tendency for inequality or polarization to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128755