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Growth, Poverty and Inequality Dynamics : Four Empirical Essays at the Macro and Micro Level.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weisbrod, Julian.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Goettinger Studien Zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Introduction and Overview
  • 1 Twin Peaks or Three Components?
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Statistical Methodology and Data
  • 1.2.1 Data
  • 1.2.2 Testing for the Number of Components in a Finite Mixture - the Modified Likelihood Ratio Test
  • 1.2.3 Discriminant Analysis via Posterior Probabilities
  • 1.2.4 Nonparametric Kernel Density Estimation and Mode Testing
  • 1.3 Results
  • 1.3.1 Selecting the Number of Components
  • 1.3.2 Evolution of the Cross-Country Distribution of Income
  • 1.3.3 Intra-Distributional Dynamics Based on Posterior Probabilities
  • 1.4 Conclusion
  • 1.5 Extension: Mixtures with Distinct Variances
  • 2 Global Income Distribution Dynamics and Pro-Poor Growth
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Methodology and Data
  • 2.2.1 Data
  • 2.2.2 Mixtures of Log-normal Distributions
  • 2.3 The Global Income Distribution
  • 2.3.1 Inequality and Poverty
  • 2.3.2 Growth Incidence Curves and Pro-Poor Growth
  • 2.4 Regional Distributions, Inequality, Poverty and Growth Incidence Curves
  • 2.4.1 Regional Income and Log-Income Distributions
  • 2.4.2 Regional Poverty and Inequality Measures
  • 2.4.3 Regional Semi-Decade Specific Growth Rates, Rates of Pro-poor Growth and Growth Incidence Curves
  • 2.5 Conclusion
  • 3 Ethnic Fractionalisation, Migration and Growth
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Theoretical Framework
  • 3.3 Existing Empirical Investigations
  • 3.4 Data and Methodology
  • 3.5 Results
  • 3.5.1 Extending the Data Set
  • 3.5.2 Migration and Ethnic Fractionalisation
  • 3.6 Conclusion and Future Research Questions
  • 4 Pathways out of Poverty in Indonesia
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Conceptualisation and Methodological Issues
  • 4.2.1 Conceptualisation and the "Naive" Model
  • 4.2.2 Data
  • 4.2.3 Poverty Line
  • 4.3 Descriptive Analysis, Income &amp
  • Poverty Transition Matrices.
  • 4.3.1 Descriptive Statistics
  • 4.3.2 Income Growth
  • 4.3.3 Poverty Transitions
  • 4.4 Micro Determinants of Income and Poverty Transitions
  • 4.4.1 The Determinants of Income and Poverty Levels
  • 4.4.2 The Determinants of Income Change
  • 4.4.3 Poverty Dynamics
  • 4.5 Conclusion
  • A Appendix A
  • B Appendix B
  • C Appendix C
  • D Appendix D
  • Bibliography.

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