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Luc Christiaensen and Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen If a person suddenly becomes poor, for example, due to an unexpected death or illness in the family, they will have a rather different experience and understanding of poverty than someone who has been impoverished almost their entire life. Importantly...
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Measuring Poverty Over Time
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Measuring Poverty Over Time
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Measuring Poverty Over Time
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– Evidence from South Africa
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Measuring Poverty Over Time
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– Validation and Applications
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Measuring Poverty Over Time
People often move in and out of poverty, and the length of time spent in poverty can vary widely, likely affecting prospects of escaping and staying out of poverty. Current poverty measures do not account for these aspects. Should they? Are there sound theoretical foundations for shifting towards...
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Tracking poverty is predicated on the availability of comparable consumption data and reliable price deflators. However, regular series of strictly comparable data are only rarely available. Poverty prediction methods that track consumption correlates as opposed to consumption itself have been...
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The Impact of Multiple Imputation of Coarsened Data on Estimates on the Working Poor in South Africa
South African household surveys typically contain coarsened earnings data, which consist of a mixture of missing earnings values, point responses and interval-censored responses. This paper uses sequential regression multivariate imputation to impute missing and interval-censored values in the 2000...
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– Findings from Case Studies
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Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
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Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
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– The Adoption, Diffusion, and Welfare Impact of Non-Traditional Export Crops in Guatemala
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Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
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Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
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