Empirical Analysis of Poverty Dynamics : With Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Main Author: Günther, Isabel.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Goettinger Studien Zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics Series
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505 0 |a Cover -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction and Overview -- 1 A Growth-Poverty-Paradox? -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Paradox -- 1.3 Biased Poverty Estimates -- 1.3.1 Poverty Line -- 1.3.2 Welfare Aggregate -- 1.3.3 Survey Design -- 1.4 Revised Growth-Poverty Assessments -- 1.4.1 Revised Poverty and Inequality Estimates -- 1.4.2 Robustness Check -- 1.4.3 Growth Elasticities of Poverty -- 1.5 Conclusion -- 1.5.1 The 'Arithmetic' Paradox -- 1.5.2 The 'Economic' Paradox -- 2 Pro-Poor Growth and Inflation Inequality -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Measurements of Pro-Poor Growth -- 2.3 Theory and Empirics of Inflation Inequality -- 2.3.1 Homogenous Price Indices -- 2.3.2 Heterogenous Consumption Patterns and Prices -- 2.4 Methodology -- 2.4.1 Growth Incidence Curve with PCPIs -- 2.4.2 Triple Decomposition of Poverty -- 2.5 Empirical Application -- 2.5.1 Data Description -- 2.5.2 Growth Incidence Curve with PCPIs -- 2.5.3 Triple Decomposition of Poverty -- 2.6 Conclusion -- 3 Vulnerability to Idiosyncratic and Covariate Shocks -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Concepts and Estimates of Vulnerability -- 3.2.1 Concepts of Vulnerability -- 3.2.2 Estimates of Vulnerability -- 3.2.3 Idiosyncratic and Covariate Shocks -- 3.3 Methodology -- 3.3.1 Mean and Variance of Consumption -- 3.3.2 Multilevel Analysis -- 3.3.3 Idiosyncratic and Covariate Variance -- 3.3.4 Critical Discussion -- 3.4 Empirical Application -- 3.4.1 Data Description -- 3.4.2 Estimation Results -- 3.4.3 Vulnerability to Poverty -- 3.4.4 Sources of Vulnerability -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4 A Competitive and Segmented Labor Market -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.1.1 Theory of Informal Labor Markets -- 4.1.2 Empirics of Informal Labor Markets -- 4.2 Econometric Model -- 4.2.1 Specification -- 4.2.2 Test for Segmentation or Competitiveness -- 4.2.3 Implementation. 
505 8 |a 4.3 Empirical Application -- 4.3.1 Data Description -- 4.3.2 Heterogenous Informal Labor Markets -- 4.3.3 Competitive or Segmented Labor Markets? -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliography. 
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