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Measurement of Trends in Wellbeing, Poverty, and Inequality with Case Studies from Bolivia and Colombia.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grosse, Melanie.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Goettinger Studien Zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction and Overview
  • 1 Matching Household Surveys with DHS Data to Create Nationally Representative Time Series of Poverty: An Application to Bolivia
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Approach and Data
  • 1.3 Empirical Results
  • 1.3.1 Estimation Properties
  • 1.3.2 Poverty and Inequality Trends
  • 1.3.3 Pro-Poor Growth
  • 1.4 Sensitivity Analyses
  • 1.4.1 Disaggregated Data on GDP
  • 1.4.2 Regional Differentials in Sectoral Participation
  • 1.4.3 Mobility Assumption
  • 1.5 The Asset Index Approach
  • 1.6 Discussion
  • 2 Estimating the Stability of Poverty Analysis: Out-of-Sample Predictions in Dynamic Poverty Mapping
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Approach and Data
  • 2.3 Results of Out-of-Sample Predictions
  • 2.3.1 Regression
  • 2.3.2 Method
  • 2.3.3 Income
  • 2.3.4 Evolution of Poverty and Inequality
  • 2.4 Discussion and Outlook
  • 2.5 Conclusion
  • 3 Measuring Pro-Poor Growth in Non-Income Dimensions
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 The Concept of Pro-Poor Growth
  • 3.2.1 Definition of Pro-Poor Growth
  • 3.2.2 Multidimensionality of Pro-Poor Growth
  • 3.3 Methodology
  • 3.3.1 The Growth Incidence Curve
  • 3.3.2 The Non-Income Growth Incidence Curve
  • 3.3.3 Specification of the Non-Income Indicators
  • 3.3.4 Limitations of the Indicators
  • 3.4 Empirical Analysis
  • 3.4.1 Inequality
  • 3.4.2 Pro-Poor Growth
  • 3.5 Conclusion
  • 4 Pro-Poor Growth in Multidimensional Poverty Indicators: An Application to Colombia
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Multidimensional Poverty Analysis: Concept and Measurement Issues
  • 4.2.1 Foundations of Multidimensional Poverty Analysis
  • 4.2.2 Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics: Pro-Poor Growth
  • 4.3 Application to Colombia
  • 4.3.1 Macroeconomic Trends and Public Policies
  • 4.3.2 Data
  • 4.3.3 Multidimensional Poverty Indicators.
  • 4.3.4 Correlation with Income and Consumption
  • 4.3.5 Limitations of the Indicators
  • 4.4 Results
  • 4.4.1 Trends and Inequality in Multidimensional Indicators
  • 4.4.2 Pro-Poor Growth Analysis
  • 4.5 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Appendix C.

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