Robustness of Subjective Welfare Analysis in a Poor Developing Country: Madagascar 2001
The authors analyze the subjective perceptions of poverty in Madagascar in 2001 and their relationship to objective poverty indicators. They base their analysis on survey responses to a series of subjective perception questions. The authors extend...
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Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, D.C.
2013
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/01/2892937/robustness-subjective-welfare-analysis-poor-developing-country-madagascar-2001 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14190 |
Summary: | The authors analyze the subjective
perceptions of poverty in Madagascar in 2001 and their
relationship to objective poverty indicators. They base
their analysis on survey responses to a series of subjective
perception questions. The authors extend the existing
empirical methodology for estimating subjective poverty
lines on the basis of categorical consumption adequacy
questions. Based on this methodology they calculate the
household-specific, subjective poverty lines and compare the
poverty profiles derived from different subjective welfare
questions. The results show that the aggregate poverty
measures derived from consumption adequacy questions accord
quite well with the poverty measures based on objective
poverty lines. The subjective welfare analysis can be used
in poor developing countries for evaluating socioeconomic
and distributional impacts of various policy interventions. |
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