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The Developing World is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty

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The paper presents a major overhaul to
the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty,
incorporating new and better data. Extreme poverty-as judged
by what "poverty" means in the world's
poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than we
thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of
continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the
early 1980s.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía

How Good a Map? Putting Small Area Estimation to the Test

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The authors examine the performance of
small area welfare estimation. The method combines census
and survey data to produce spatially disaggregated poverty
and inequality estimates. To test the method, they compare
predicted welfare indicators for a set of target populations
with their true values. They construct target populations
using actual data from a census of households in a set of
rural Mexican communities.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía

Migration and Economic Mobility in Tanzania : Evidence from a Tracking Survey

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This study explores the extent to which
migration has contributed to improved living standards of
individuals in Tanzania. Using longitudinal data on
individuals, the authors estimate the impact of migration on
consumption growth between 1991 and 2004. The analysis
addresses concerns about heterogeneity and unobservable
factors correlated with both income changes and the decision
to migrate.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía

Micro vs. macro consumption data : the cyclical properties of the consumer expenditure survey

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The Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX) offers the most comprehensive consumption data at the consumer level for the United States. Several previous studies have shown a large gap between per-capita consumption from the CEX and the aggregate Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) series. While previous research has focused on consumption levels, we focus on the cyclical properties of consumption. We find that the cyclical properties of consumption expenditure data from the two sources are quantitatively very different.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía›Economía

Policy Note : A Poverty Map for Sri Lanka—Lessons and Findings

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To rejuvenate the slow poverty alleviation process in Sri Lanka, the first step would be to better understand the geographical distribution of poverty, which in turn would require estimating poverty at a level of disaggregation lower than the district level. This policy note summarizes results and experience of a poverty mapping exercise in Sri Lanka that has been conducted in close collaboration with the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) since 2003.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía

China is Poorer than we Thought, But No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty

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In 2005, China participated for the
first time in the International Comparison Program (ICP),
which collects primary data across countries on the prices
for an internationally comparable list of goods and
services. This paper examines the implications of the new
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) rate (derived by the ICP) for
China's poverty rate (by international standards) and
how it has changed over time.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía

Multidimensional poverty analysis: Looking for a middle ground

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Widespread agreement that poverty is a
multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing deprivations along
multiple dimensions, clashes with often vociferous
disagreement about how best to measure these deprivations.
Drawing on the recent literature, this short note proposes
three methodological alternatives to the false dichotomy
between scalar indices of multidimensional poverty, on the
one hand, and a "dashboard" approach that looks
only at marginal distributions, on the other.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía

The Measurement of Inequality of Opportunity : Theory and an Application to Latin America

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What part of the inequality observed in
a particular country is due to unequal opportunities, rather
than to differences in individual efforts or luck? This
paper estimates a lower bound for the opportunity share of
inequality in labor earnings, household income per capita
and household consumption per capita in six Latin American
countries.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía

Assessing the Geographic Impact of Higher Food Prices in Guinea

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Telling a policy maker that poverty will
increase due to the recent increase in food prices is not
very useful; telling the policy makers where the impact is
likely to be larger is better, so that measures to cope with
the impact of the crisis can be targeted to areas that need
them the most. This paper shows how to use poverty mapping
techniques to assess where higher food prices are likely to
hurt the most using Guinea census and survey data as a case
study.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía

On the Welfarist Rationale for Relative Poverty Lines

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The theory and evidence supporting a
relativist approach to poverty measurement are critically
reviewed. Various sources of welfare interdependence are
identified, including the idea of "relative
deprivation" as well other (positive and negative)
welfare effects for poor people of belonging to a better-off
group.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía